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Latin American Culture And Civilization

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1. 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






2. Walker dreamed establish a slave empire in Central America which had himself elected president of Nicaragua in 1856. Seeing the danger - the other Central American governments fought the famous filibuster to defeat him and shoot him in 1860.






3. 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






4. The person most responsible for many of the arbitrary government of Maximilian was ...






5. Today - Puerto Rico is ...






6. 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.






7. This is the acutal leader of Cuba

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






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






10. 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






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






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






13. 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






14. 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






15. Latin America is not a...






16. most Latin Americans are in favor of Puerto Rico as ...






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






18. From colonial times - Mexico has been the leading producer of ...






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






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






21. _____ is not a part of Latin America






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. Bogota






24. Ten percent of Mexicans are ...






25. when Mexico became independent - the richest landowner was ..






26. The chief of the Taino Indians on this island made a serious mistake when he Cristobol Colon ragalo to a gold ornament.






27. 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






28. 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






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






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






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






32. 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






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






34. 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






35. 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.






36. Spain's signature popular dishes






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






38. a 'male whim' held by men in Puerto Rico is ..






39. 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






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






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






42. Since 1949 ______ has no army.






43. 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.






44. ...






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






46. 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






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






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






50. In this novel by Julio Cortazar - the reader can start at any chapter and continue with an order to your liking.