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Latin American Culture And Civilization

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1. 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






2. Today - Puerto Rico is ...






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






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






5. 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






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






7. ...






8. 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






9. 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.






10. 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.






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






12. 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






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






14. 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






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






16. 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






17. 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






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






19. 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






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






21. America is not only...






22. Since 1949 ______ has no army.






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






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






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






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






27. Bogota






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






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






30. took office in 1857 - proud of his Zapotec Indian blood. Juarez promulgated the reform laws that established the suppression of the religious orders - the confiscation of church property and the obligation to register the birth - marriage and death.






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






32. 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






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






34. 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






35. _____ is not a part of Latin America






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






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






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






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






40. 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






41. ...






42. Ten percent of Mexicans are ...






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






44. At the next election the revolutionary triumph Jacobo Arbenz - who took office in 1951. The following year - his government passed the Agrarian Reform Law - which benefited hundreds of thousands of families.






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






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






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






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






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






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







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