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Latin American Culture And Civilization

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1. 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






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






3. 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






4. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






10. _____ is not a part of Latin America






11. 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






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






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






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






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






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






17. Bogota






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






19. 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.






20. 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






21. 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






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






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






27. 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






28. This cacique (tyrant) Cuban said 'If the Spanish can be in heaven - I'd rather go to hell'






29. Latin America is not a...






30. one of the more unscrupulous dictatorship was that of Nicaragua who won his country the peace of prison.






31. America is not only...






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






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






34. 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






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






36. 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






37. 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






38. Minor C. Keith helped found the ...






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






40. 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






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






42. The Underdogs by Mariano Azuela - is one of the best novels ...






43. 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.






44. Since 1949 ______ has no army.






45. 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






46. ...






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






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






49. 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






50. Ten percent of Mexicans are ...