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Latin American Culture And Civilization

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1. Spain's signature popular dishes






2. On the contrary - the crisis during the economic downturn accelerated the impoverishment and encouraged corruption. Hurricanes - which at that time were more intense and more destructive than usual - the situation worsened. In these circumstances - i






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






4. Somoza dynasty was fought by guerrilla followers of the ideology of Sandino. The oppression and corruption of the Somoza popular recrimination. Finally the different sectors - forgetting ideological differences - came together and defeated the Somoza






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






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






7. Which of the achievements of the Cuban Revolution does not belong?






8. Since 1949 ______ has no army.






9. The poems - stories and essays in this Argentine sequidores have had many in recent decades






10. on 1 January 1994 - the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN) started the armed struggle in the southern state of Chiapas - led by Subcomandante supposedly identified as Rafael Sebastian Guillen Vicente - exprofessor Metropolitina Autonomous U






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






12. ...






13. Latin America is not a...






14. Laureano Vallenilla Lanz was the author of the most eloquent defense of despotism Latin America: Democratic Caesarism - translated into Italian by order of Mussolini to show a happy anticipation of the fascist system.






15. This Costa Rican received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1987 for his Central American peace plan.






16. Ten percent of Mexicans are ...






17. This Central American country is known derisively as the 'banana republic'






18. attempts were made to end the chaos by a Conservative government - inspired by Generalissimo Franco's Falange. That government failed and was deposed by General Gustavo Rojas Pinilla. To maintain his dictatorship with the consent of the United States






19. 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






20. This noble spirit is the greatest hero of Cubans of all political stripes.






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






22. Buenaventura Baez - a former puppet Santana - another traitor - since the presidency conspired to grant special rights and naval bases to the United States - prior to its full annexation. President Ulysses S. Grant enthusiastically supported the anne






23. Minor C. Keith helped found the ...






24. At the next election the revolutionary triumph Jacobo Arbenz - who took office in 1951. The following year - his government passed the Agrarian Reform Law - which benefited hundreds of thousands of families.






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






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






27. Diego Rivera - Jose Clemente Orozco and David Alfaro Siqueiros are famous ...






28. Rosario Castellanos - the new Indian school - leaves the reader see the world through Indian eyes of a seven year old girl in ...






29. Channel control passed to the Panamanians in ...






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






31. 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






32. Cuba is in the ______ sea






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






34. _____ is not a part of Latin America






35. had three stages of the Mexican Revolution: the wartime period (1910-1920) - the organizing stage (1920-1940) and the conservative stage (1940-2000). It was an armed struggle that started in 1910 - with an uprising led by Francisco Madero against for






36. America is not only...






37. basing his rule on this philosophy - Porfirio Diaz wanted to transform the country 'scientifically'






38. Fausto - Santos Vega and Martin Fierro - are the poetic genre ...






39. 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






40. the illiterate indigenous noble. In the south - continued the struggle for Land and Freedom << >> - << convinced that it is better to die standing than live on your knees >> - slogan adopted by the Republicans after the Civil War in Spain.






41. 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.






42. This Dominican tyrant did kidnap a professor lantinoamericana civilization - secretly take Santodomingo - tortuarlo and murder.






43. 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






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






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






46. 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






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






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






49. 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






50. This is the acutal leader of Cuba