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Latin American Culture And Civilization

Subject : culture
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1. 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






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






3. This is the acutal leader of Cuba

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






5. 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






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






7. It is said that the traits fundmentales ethos of the Cuban summary will ...






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






9. Spain's signature popular dishes






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






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






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






13. Ten percent of Mexicans are ...






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






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






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






17. 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






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






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






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






21. ...






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






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






24. 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






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






26. 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






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






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






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






30. before election fraud and government waste - the opposition candidate launched the famous Plan de San Luis Potosi; policy proposal considered a call to rebellion that began the Mexican Revolution. He was proclaimed provisional president in 1911.






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






32. 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






33. 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






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






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






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






37. ...






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






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






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






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






42. 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






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






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






45. 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






46. 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.






47. Since 1949 ______ has no army.






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






49. 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






50. Today - Puerto Rico is ...