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Latin American Culture And Civilization

Subject : culture
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1. Jose Marti - Julian del Casal - Jose Asuncion Silva and Manuel Gutierrez Najera are initiators of ...






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






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






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






5. ...






6. Ten percent of Mexicans are ...






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






8. 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.






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






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






11. Since 1949 ______ has no army.






12. 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






13. 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 ..






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






15. 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.






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






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






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






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






20. 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






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






22. 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






23. 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






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






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






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






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






28. 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






29. 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






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






31. 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


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






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






34. 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.






35. 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.






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






37. 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






38. America is not only...






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






40. the brightest Nicaraguan history has been the poet ...






41. 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






42. Spain's signature popular dishes






43. ...






44. Minor C. Keith helped found the ...






45. 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






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






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






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






50. 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