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Latin American Culture And Civilization
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1. This is the acutal leader of Cuba
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2. 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.
Ruben Dario
democratic Caesarism
United Fruit Company
Markos Commandante
3. Ten percent of Mexicans are ...
illiterate (cant read or write)
Latin American realism
church
Poetry
4. 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.
a commonwealth
Shoe
Jose Santos Zelaya
Poetry
5. 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
Trujillo
1917 Constitution
Panama's independence
Ruben Dario
6. The Underdogs by Mariano Azuela - is one of the best novels ...
The Mexican Revolution
Benito Juarez
Advantages and disadvantages of the Commonwealth
Columbia
7. 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.
1917 Constitution
compare and contrast the Spanish American modernism with Brazilian modernism
Jacobo Arbenz
Honduras
8. In this novel by Julio Cortazar - the reader can start at any chapter and continue with an order to your liking.
Francisco Morazan
Hopscotch
choteo
Tlatelolco
9. 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
Antonio Conselherio
Somoza family
Balun Canan
1917 Constitution
10. 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
compare and contrast the Spanish American modernism with Brazilian modernism
Jacobo Arbenz
Francisco Morazan
Porfirio Diaz
11. 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.
Raul Salinas de Gotari
Puerto Rico
Explain how history is reflected in the literature
Poetry
12. Fausto - Santos Vega and Martin Fierro - are the poetic genre ...
United Fruit Company
gaucho (cowboy)
Jacobo Arbenz
Albizu Campos
13. one of the more unscrupulous dictatorship was that of Nicaragua who won his country the peace of prison.
Mexican Revolution
Tlatelolco
an independent country
Jose Santos Zelaya
14. This is considered by some critics as the most eminent writer Brazilian and Latin American novelist best nineteenth LMIS
Santa Anna
Augusto Cesar Sandino
Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
democratic Caesarism
15. This Central American country is known derisively as the 'banana republic'
modernism
Francisco Madero
Honduras
Hopscotch
16. 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
U.S. intervention in the Dominican Republic
Lazaro Cardenas
Raul Castro (Fidel's brother)
Jose Marti
17. _____ is not a part of Latin America
Puerto Rico
Tlatelolco
Jorge Luis Borges
Jose Marti
18. 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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19. Diego Rivera - Jose Clemente Orozco and David Alfaro Siqueiros are famous ...
modernism
Benito Juarez
muralists
Raul Salinas de Gotari
20. 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.
illiterate (cant read or write)
Jorge Luis Borges
Markos Commandante
Andres Bello
21. This noble Indian was convinced that 'it is better to die on your feet than live on your knees'
Athens of South America
a commonwealth
Emiliano Zapata
Costa Rica
22. In Facundo or Civilization and Barbarism by Domingo Faustino Sarmiento - barbarism is represented by ...
Puerto Rico
thirty-three (33)
Panama's independence
Americanism
23. 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 ..
Tlatelolco
Hopscotch
Jose Santos Zelaya
students
24. 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
Raul Castro (Fidel's brother)
Porfirio Diaz
Jacobo Arbenz
realistic
25. Jose Marti - Julian del Casal - Jose Asuncion Silva and Manuel Gutierrez Najera are initiators of ...
modernism
Mexican Revolution
Francisco Madero
Trujillo
26. 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
Causes of the Cuban Revolution
Indians
muralists
Athens of South America
27. This noble spirit is the greatest hero of Cubans of all political stripes.
Ruben Dario
Jose Marti
Markos Commandante
democratic Caesarism
28. Channel control passed to the Panamanians in ...
Jose Marti
Raul Castro (Fidel's brother)
1999
Ruben Dario
29. In his 'Address to the poetry' - this master of Simon Bolivar was one of the first to make explicit clearly longing for intellectual independence.
Andres Bello
Porfirio Diaz
a commonwealth
Trujillo
30. 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
Carlota
The characteristics of violence in Columbia
Shoe
an independent country
31. Mexico lost almost half of its territory to the U.S. Under the terms of ...
continent
Treaty of Ancon
the imposition of a control regime tyrannical dictatorship that fought for the revolution.
Jose Marti
32. This modernist Nicaraguan considered the most important poet in Castilian from the Golden Age
United Fruit Company
realistic
Ruben Dario
Augusto Sandino
33. 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
Trujillo
Caribbean
realistic
Morazan
34. As Balzac - Goncourt - Zola and Dickens - Alberto Blest Gana is fundamentally ...
realistic
Explain how history is reflected in the literature
Jacobo Arbenz
Antonio Lopez de Santa Ana
35. Which of the achievements of the Cuban Revolution does not belong?
the imposition of a control regime tyrannical dictatorship that fought for the revolution.
Puerto Rico
church
Morazan
36. The poems - stories and essays in this Argentine sequidores have had many in recent decades
Gran Colombia
a commonwealth
Jorge Luis Borges
The characteristics of violence in Columbia
37. This president expropriated lands - nationalized oil and railways for the benefit of the dispossessed.
Ruben Dario
Raul Salinas de Gotari
Causes of the Cuban Revolution
Lazaro Cardenas
38. most Latin Americans are in favor of Puerto Rico as ...
students
Explain how history is reflected in the literature
Americanism
an independent country
39. Minor C. Keith helped found the ...
Raul Castro (Fidel's brother)
Caribbean
United Fruit Company
the imposition of a control regime tyrannical dictatorship that fought for the revolution.
40. ...
Panama's independence
Platt Amendment
The outstanding features of the new Latin American novelar technique
Mexican Revolution
41. From colonial times - Mexico has been the leading producer of ...
Gerardo Machado Morales
realistic
Jacobo Arbenz
silver
42. Today - Puerto Rico is ...
a commonwealth
Ruben Dario
Manuel Antonio Noriega
Raul Castro (Fidel's brother)
43. 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
Jose Marti
Causes of the Cuban Revolution
church
manufacturing
44. Latin America is not so called because the first people spoke Latin.
Augusto Cesar Sandino
They Were the romance languages - latin --- not spanish - french italian
The President
church
45. This novel of 1967 helped this Colombian mocho win the Nobel Prize for Literature.
Jose Marti
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Augusto Cesar Sandino
Americanism
46. The Panamanian leader was captured - tried and imprisoned in the U.S..
democratic Caesarism
Manuel Antonio Noriega
the U.S.
1999
47. Bogota
Athens of South America
Shoe
silver
Gerardo Machado Morales
48. 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
1917 Constitution
Mexican Revolution
Poetry
1999
49. 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
gaucho (cowboy)
Benito Juarez
Antonio Conselherio
Markos Commandante
50. 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.
Raul Castro (Fidel's brother)
students
William Walker
silver