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Latin American Culture And Civilization

Subject : culture
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1. Addition to Castilian - many language families exist in the country?






2. ...






3. Today - Puerto Rico is ...






4. 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






5. 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






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






7. 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






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






9. The atmosphere of terror of the dictatorship of Estrada Cabrera was captured by the Nobel Prize winner for Literature Miguel Angel Asturias's novel ...






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






11. basing his rule on this philosophy - Porfirio Diaz wanted to transform the country 'scientifically'






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






13. 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






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






15. 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






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






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






18. _____ is not a part of Latin America






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






20. 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






21. America is not only...






22. 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






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






24. This is the acutal leader of Cuba

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






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






28. 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






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






30. 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






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






32. 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






33. 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






34. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






40. 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






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






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






43. Bogota






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






45. 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.






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






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






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






49. 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






50. 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