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Latin American Culture And Civilization

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1. 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






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






4. 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






5. 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.






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






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






8. Cuba is in the ______ sea






9. Since 1949 ______ has no army.






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






11. 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






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






13. Latin America is not a...






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






15. 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






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






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






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






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






20. This patriot nicarguense rose up against the U.S. occupation forces.






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






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






23. 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






24. 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 ..






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






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






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






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






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






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






31. The Panamanian leader was captured - tried and imprisoned in the U.S..






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






33. America is not only...






34. 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






35. 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






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






37. 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.






38. 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






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






40. 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.






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






42. administrative integrity and dynamism he conquered much popularity. Conducted more work for the benefit of the dispossessed classes than their predecessors. Implemented the Constitution of 1917 - land was expropriated and distributed forty-five milli






43. This is the acutal leader of Cuba

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44. 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






45. 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






46. 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.






47. 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






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






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






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