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Latin American Culture And Civilization

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






2. 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






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. 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






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






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






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






8. 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.






9. 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






10. 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






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






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






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






14. 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






15. Ten percent of Mexicans are ...






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






17. This novel of 1967 helped this Colombian mocho win the Nobel Prize for Literature.






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






19. The atmosphere of terror of the dictatorship of Estrada Cabrera was captured by the Nobel Prize winner for Literature Miguel Angel Asturias's novel ...






20. In Facundo or Civilization and Barbarism by Domingo Faustino Sarmiento - barbarism is represented by ...






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






22. This is the acutal leader of Cuba

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






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






25. This defeated Mexican General Jim Bowie - Davy Crockett and the Texans at the Alamo.






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






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






28. 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.






29. 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






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






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






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






33. 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






34. ...






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






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






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






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






39. 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.






40. 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






41. Spain's signature popular dishes






42. 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






43. Since 1949 ______ has no army.






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






45. 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






46. Minor C. Keith helped found the ...






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






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






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