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Latin American Culture And Civilization

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1. when Mexico became independent - the richest landowner was ..






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






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






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






5. Cuba is in the ______ sea






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






7. 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






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






9. Spain's signature popular dishes






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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19. 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






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






21. America is not only...






22. Mexico lost almost half of its territory to the U.S. Under the terms of ...






23. 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






24. Minor C. Keith helped found the ...






25. 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






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






27. Today - Puerto Rico is ...






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






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






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






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






32. 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






33. 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.






34. This noble Indian was convinced that 'it is better to die on your feet than live on your knees'






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






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






37. 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






38. 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






39. This is the acutal leader of Cuba


40. 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






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






42. 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.






43. 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






44. 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.






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






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






47. _____ is not a part of Latin America






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






49. 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






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