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Latin American Culture And Civilization
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1. a 'male whim' held by men in Puerto Rico is ..
1999
Timber
the guachafita
Gerardo Machado Morales
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
illiterate (cant read or write)
Panama's independence
Albizu Campos
an independent country
3. This Central American country is known derisively as the 'banana republic'
Jose Marti
El Salvador
Andres Bello
Honduras
4. 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
Borinquineers
Puerto Rico
Advantages and disadvantages of the Commonwealth
Columbia
5. 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.
Santa Anna
parella - tortilla
Jacobo Arbenz
Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
6. 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
Americanism
Oscar Arias Sanchez
Jose Marti
church
7. 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
Hopscotch
Jose Santos Zelaya
Lazaro Cardenas
church
8. Addition to Castilian - many language families exist in the country?
parella - tortilla
Indians
thirty-three (33)
Caribbean
9. This country is the smallest but most densely populated Central
U.S. intervention in the Dominican Republic
William Walker
El Salvador
Borinquineers
10. This patriot nicarguense rose up against the U.S. occupation forces.
the guachafita
Augusto Cesar Sandino
Costa Rica
Ruben Dario
11. 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
Caribbean
Honduras
U.S. intervention in the Dominican Republic
Raul Castro (Fidel's brother)
12. 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
The characteristics of violence in Columbia
Gran Colombia
the guachafita
Shoe
13. This is the acutal leader of Cuba
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14. The Honduran patriot is considered 'father of the nation'
Jose Santos Zelaya
Hopscotch
Puerto Rico
Francisco Morazan
15. ...
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Antonio Conselherio
The outstanding features of the new Latin American novelar technique
Advantages and disadvantages of the Commonwealth
16. 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.
Jacobo Arbenz
Causes of the Cuban Revolution
Porfirio Diaz
Andres Bello
17. The Panamanian leader was captured - tried and imprisoned in the U.S..
Antonio Conselherio
Raul Salinas de Gotari
Manuel Antonio Noriega
William Walker
18. 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
Francisco Madero
Carlota
Santa Anna
Gerardo Machado Morales
19. This noble Indian was convinced that 'it is better to die on your feet than live on your knees'
The Mexican Revolution
Emiliano Zapata
Somoza family
They Were the romance languages - latin --- not spanish - french italian
20. 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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21. 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.
Americanism
Raul Salinas de Gotari
Manuel Antonio Noriega
Albizu Campos
22. This president expropriated lands - nationalized oil and railways for the benefit of the dispossessed.
Lazaro Cardenas
United Fruit Company
Francisco Morazan
Hatuey
23. ...
United Fruit Company
Explain how history is reflected in the literature
Augusto Cesar Sandino
compare and contrast the Spanish American modernism with Brazilian modernism
24. This Costa Rican received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1987 for his Central American peace plan.
Oscar Arias Sanchez
Jose Marti
U.S. intervention in the Dominican Republic
Causes of the Cuban Revolution
25. The name by which Puerto Ricans refer to themselves is ...
Hatuey
Borinquineers
Antonio Lopez de Santa Ana
compare and contrast the Spanish American modernism with Brazilian modernism
26. Rosario Castellanos - the new Indian school - leaves the reader see the world through Indian eyes of a seven year old girl in ...
Puerto Rico
Balun Canan
church
silver
27. The main source of income for Puerto Rico now is ...
Andres Bello
manufacturing
muralists
Markos Commandante
28. The Underdogs by Mariano Azuela - is one of the best novels ...
Timber
choteo
Americanism
The Mexican Revolution
29. 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.
Markos Commandante
Emiliano Zapata
silver
Shoe
30. 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
Antonio Lopez de Santa Ana
Antonio Conselherio
The President
31. one of the more unscrupulous dictatorship was that of Nicaragua who won his country the peace of prison.
Jose Santos Zelaya
Treaty of Ancon
Panama's independence
Andres Bello
32. 'Effective suffrage - no reelection' was the ironic slogan ...
Trujillo
Porfirio Diaz
United Fruit Company
Carlota
33. The Cuban leader was famous for his enemies throw at sharks.
The characteristics of violence in Columbia
Timber
Manuel Antonio Noriega
Gerardo Machado Morales
34. It is said that the traits fundmentales ethos of the Cuban summary will ...
Manuel Antonio Noriega
choteo
Lazaro Cardenas
United Fruit Company
35. 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
Santa Anna
William Walker
continent
Porfirio Diaz
36. 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
Gran Colombia
Poetry
silver
Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
37. America is not only...
Hatuey
the guachafita
the U.S.
illiterate (cant read or write)
38. Gabriela Mistral - Pablo Neruda and Octavio Paz have been honored with the Nobel Prize in Literature for his (s) ...
Santa Anna
Benito Juarez
Poetry
gaucho (cowboy)
39. This religious preacher and leader of Canudos imporant figure in novels Euclydes da Cunha Brazilian and Peruvian Mario Vargas Llosa.
Antonio Lopez de Santa Ana
Antonio Conselherio
One Hundred Years of Solitude
silver
40. of 1909-1933 Nicaragua suffered heavily U.S. intervention - guided by the dollar diplomacy. United States first imposed its customs control and then occupied the country with Marine detachments. The occupation was unopposed until 1927 - when the gene
Americanism
Augusto Sandino
1999
They Were the romance languages - latin --- not spanish - french italian
41. Fray Antonio de Montesinos and Fray Bartolome de las Casas opposed the exerminio ..
manufacturing
Puerto Rico
Indians
an independent country
42. Latin America is not so called because the first people spoke Latin.
Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
illiterate (cant read or write)
Francisco Morazan
They Were the romance languages - latin --- not spanish - french italian
43. 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 ..
muralists
Timber
students
Raul Castro (Fidel's brother)
44. The United Fruit Company passionately combated guatemaletco reforms ....
church
Somoza family
Augusto Sandino
Jacobo Arbenz
45. Today - Puerto Rico is ...
a commonwealth
Carlota
Panama's independence
Markos Commandante
46. In this novel by Julio Cortazar - the reader can start at any chapter and continue with an order to your liking.
Morazan
realistic
Francisco Madero
Hopscotch
47. most Latin Americans are in favor of Puerto Rico as ...
an independent country
Ruben Dario
Augusto Sandino
Hopscotch
48. The poems - stories and essays in this Argentine sequidores have had many in recent decades
Lazaro Cardenas
Jorge Luis Borges
Porfirio Diaz
Antonio Lopez de Santa Ana
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
Markos Commandante
The Mexican Revolution
Costa Rica
Puerto Rico
50. 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
William Walker
Advantages and disadvantages of the Commonwealth
an independent country
compare and contrast the Spanish American modernism with Brazilian modernism