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Latin American Culture And Civilization

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1. The name by which Puerto Ricans refer to themselves is ...






2. under President Gustavo Diaz Ordaz - happened a sad afternoon for Mexican university. In the Plaza of the Three Cultures in Tlatelolco - students marched in support of university autonomy and the rights of students were attacked at political and poli






3. one of the more unscrupulous dictatorship was that of Nicaragua who won his country the peace of prison.






4. In his 'Address to the poetry' - this master of Simon Bolivar was one of the first to make explicit clearly longing for intellectual independence.






5. Gabriela Mistral - Pablo Neruda and Octavio Paz have been honored with the Nobel Prize in Literature for his (s) ...






6. the U.S. occupation army remained in Cuba until 1902. In accordance with the Platt Amendment to the Cuban government is obliged not to conclude international treaties without U.S. consent - to authorize the establishment of naval bases in the United






7. Since 1949 ______ has no army.






8. Jose Marti - Julian del Casal - Jose Asuncion Silva and Manuel Gutierrez Najera are initiators of ...






9. Bolivar's dream was to unify Latin America in a large political entity. So in 1819 established in Angostura (now Ciudad Bolivar) the Republic of Colombia - comprised of the territories that today belong to Venezuela - Colombia - Panama and Ecuador. T






10. Bogota






11. It is said that the traits fundmentales ethos of the Cuban summary will ...






12. This religious preacher and leader of Canudos imporant figure in novels Euclydes da Cunha Brazilian and Peruvian Mario Vargas Llosa.






13. took office in 1857 - proud of his Zapotec Indian blood. Juarez promulgated the reform laws that established the suppression of the religious orders - the confiscation of church property and the obligation to register the birth - marriage and death.






14. The brother of a president has been accused of being the mastermind in murder and having received bribes of millions of dollars from drug traffickers.






15. This country is the smallest but most densely populated Central






16. This president expropriated lands - nationalized oil and railways for the benefit of the dispossessed.






17. Addition to Castilian - many language families exist in the country?






18. Latin America is not so called because the first people spoke Latin.






19. few years later - came Luis Munoz Marin. It began as a nationalist patriot - but eventually changed his political philosophy by replacing the concept of the Commonwealth - ie domestic autonomy without international legal personality. Mu






20. The United Fruit Company passionately combated guatemaletco reforms ....






21. This is considered by some critics as the most eminent writer Brazilian and Latin American novelist best nineteenth LMIS






22. The Cuban leader was famous for his enemies throw at sharks.






23. ...






24. This modernist Nicaraguan considered the most important poet in Castilian from the Golden Age






25. This noble Indian was convinced that 'it is better to die on your feet than live on your knees'






26. The fundamental objective of Hispanic realism seemed to go against the Latin American artistic desire. By offering a slice of life - a writer is unable to show the full reality of the new world I wanted to say - because this new school had at its cor






27. The Honduran patriot is considered 'father of the nation'






28. Latin America is not a...






29. During the presidency of Gustavo Dias Ordaz - in the Plaza of the Three Cultures - in Tlateloco - police and political shock guard attacked a group of ..






30. the brightest Nicaraguan history has been the poet ...






31. Historically - before being republic - Panama was part of ...






32. As Balzac - Goncourt - Zola and Dickens - Alberto Blest Gana is fundamentally ...






33. Fray Antonio de Montesinos and Fray Bartolome de las Casas opposed the exerminio ..






34. In his speech to poetry - Bello recommends return to nature and leave the civilized Europe << >> - << light region misery i>. The Venezuelan humanist sentiments expressed in a neoclassical romantic full of clues.






35. Spain's signature popular dishes






36. Although geographically belongs to Central Panama - not always associated this country with the region politically - perhaps because for centuries has been linked to South America. Since Colombia became independent from Spain in 1821 - Panama was a

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37. most significantly the turbulent period was the abolition of slavery - proclaimed earlier than most of the Americas. In these circumstances - Spain tried to reconquer the country - but the Mexican forces led by General Spanish imperialists foiled the






38. ...






39. Intellectuals and university students - allied with some army sergeants - deposed tyrant. One of these - Fulgencio Batista - stenographer of Staff - gave the final blow to the dictatorship. Opened in period that became the absolute ruler or the emine






40. America is not only...






41. One of the inmates in New York patriots - led the expedition to liberate the island. His hunch written in a letter to his mother served and died in the battlefield. He bequeathed to posterity his desire for freedom - to which he had devoted his life






42. was a general role in the struggle against Maximilian. He was a conservative vain - accustomed to using rice powder to whiten the face. She is quoted as saying: << Poor Mexico - so far from God and so close to the United States >>. His autocratic rul






43. Failing all attempts to achieve intellectual independence own artistic expression - a group of poets began the revitalization of literature in Castilian. His aesthetic soon won in Latin America and influenced the writers of Spain. Then they exchanged






44. 'Effective suffrage - no reelection' was the ironic slogan ...






45. Mexico lost almost half of its territory to the U.S. Under the terms of ...






46. In 1930 Trujillo assumed absolute powers of their homeland. He ruled for thirty years as if the country were his personal fiefdom. The tyrant imposed a reign of terror in the Dominican Republic - while its overseas agents carried out their plans to t






47. liberalism division was due to the disappointment of those who opposed the recent policy of the regime ministers millionaires. In 1948 - while celebrating the Pan American Conference - Jorge Gaitan - leader of the leftist branch of liberalism - was k






48. The main source of income for Puerto Rico now is ...






49. This is the acutal leader of Cuba

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50. Constitution noted the historic legal standards of the Revolution. The most important articles state that (a) is prohibited from the Church acquires - owns or manages real estate - (b) soil and subsoil belong to the State - (c) is right to organize l






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