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Latin American Culture And Civilization
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1. Gabriela Mistral - Pablo Neruda and Octavio Paz have been honored with the Nobel Prize in Literature for his (s) ...
Puerto Rico
William Walker
Poetry
illiterate (cant read or write)
2. The Cuban leader was famous for his enemies throw at sharks.
The outstanding features of the new Latin American novelar technique
Gerardo Machado Morales
an independent country
Raul Castro (Fidel's brother)
3. This Dominican tyrant did kidnap a professor lantinoamericana civilization - secretly take Santodomingo - tortuarlo and murder.
Trujillo
Rafael Leonidas Trujillo
thirty-three (33)
realistic
4. 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.
Gran Colombia
The President
democratic Caesarism
Timber
5. Latin America is not a...
Borinquineers
Andres Bello
Balun Canan
continent
6. The name by which Puerto Ricans refer to themselves is ...
Puerto Rico
They Were the romance languages - latin --- not spanish - french italian
Augusto Sandino
Borinquineers
7. 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.
illiterate (cant read or write)
Benito Juarez
U.S. intervention in the Dominican Republic
Ruben Dario
8. This Costa Rican received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1987 for his Central American peace plan.
William Walker
Puerto Rico
Antonio Lopez de Santa Ana
Oscar Arias Sanchez
9. This is considered by some critics as the most eminent writer Brazilian and Latin American novelist best nineteenth LMIS
Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
Mexican Revolution
Ruben Dario
Andres Bello
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.
Advantages and disadvantages of the Commonwealth
William Walker
The President
Panama's independence
11. Latin America is not so called because the first people spoke Latin.
Borinquineers
They Were the romance languages - latin --- not spanish - french italian
thirty-three (33)
Porfirio Diaz
12. In his 'Address to the poetry' - this master of Simon Bolivar was one of the first to make explicit clearly longing for intellectual independence.
Andres Bello
Shoe
Costa Rica
church
13. 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.
Andres Bello
the imposition of a control regime tyrannical dictatorship that fought for the revolution.
illiterate (cant read or write)
They Were the romance languages - latin --- not spanish - french italian
14. 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
The outstanding features of the new Latin American novelar technique
Borinquineers
manufacturing
1917 Constitution
15. when Mexico became independent - the richest landowner was ..
Oscar Arias Sanchez
Porfirio Diaz
church
manufacturing
16. ...
1999
The outstanding features of the new Latin American novelar technique
thirty-three (33)
Markos Commandante
17. 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
manufacturing
Treaty of Ancon
Puerto Rico
Santa Anna
18. Since 1949 ______ has no army.
Costa Rica
a commonwealth
Lazaro Cardenas
Oscar Arias Sanchez
19. one of the more unscrupulous dictatorship was that of Nicaragua who won his country the peace of prison.
Indians
Puerto Rico
parella - tortilla
Jose Santos Zelaya
20. 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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21. This defeated Mexican General Jim Bowie - Davy Crockett and the Texans at the Alamo.
They Were the romance languages - latin --- not spanish - french italian
Antonio Lopez de Santa Ana
Puerto Rico
Lazaro Cardenas
22. 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
muralists
Albizu Campos
Oscar Arias Sanchez
Benito Juarez
23. America is not only...
Rafael Leonidas Trujillo
Hatuey
the U.S.
Jose Marti
24. Spain's signature popular dishes
Porfirio Diaz
Athens of South America
parella - tortilla
church
25. 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
Jose Marti
Puerto Rico
Santa Anna
Indians
26. This cacique (tyrant) Cuban said 'If the Spanish can be in heaven - I'd rather go to hell'
democratic Caesarism
Hatuey
Albizu Campos
Gerardo Machado Morales
27. The main source of income for Puerto Rico now is ...
Hatuey
manufacturing
1999
Augusto Cesar Sandino
28. 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.
Gerardo Machado Morales
Shoe
compare and contrast the Spanish American modernism with Brazilian modernism
William Walker
29. 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
Markos Commandante
Latin American realism
Francisco Madero
Advantages and disadvantages of the Commonwealth
30. As Balzac - Goncourt - Zola and Dickens - Alberto Blest Gana is fundamentally ...
Timber
modernism
gaucho (cowboy)
realistic
31. 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
U.S. intervention in the Dominican Republic
Somoza family
The President
Treaty of Ancon
32. This is the acutal leader of Cuba
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33. Mexico lost almost half of its territory to the U.S. Under the terms of ...
Raul Castro (Fidel's brother)
Columbia
Treaty of Ancon
Shoe
34. 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
Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico
silver
Advantages and disadvantages of the Commonwealth
35. The Underdogs by Mariano Azuela - is one of the best novels ...
Raul Castro (Fidel's brother)
Treaty of Ancon
The Mexican Revolution
Causes of the Cuban Revolution
36. Rosario Castellanos - the new Indian school - leaves the reader see the world through Indian eyes of a seven year old girl in ...
Raul Castro (Fidel's brother)
Balun Canan
gaucho (cowboy)
Antonio Conselherio
37. Fausto - Santos Vega and Martin Fierro - are the poetic genre ...
gaucho (cowboy)
Augusto Cesar Sandino
the guachafita
Puerto Rico
38. This modernist Nicaraguan considered the most important poet in Castilian from the Golden Age
Trujillo
Francisco Morazan
Americanism
Ruben Dario
39. This country is the smallest but most densely populated Central
Antonio Conselherio
El Salvador
Manuel Antonio Noriega
Panama's independence
40. This noble Indian was convinced that 'it is better to die on your feet than live on your knees'
Rafael Leonidas Trujillo
The characteristics of violence in Columbia
thirty-three (33)
Emiliano Zapata
41. From colonial times - Mexico has been the leading producer of ...
silver
Raul Castro (Fidel's brother)
Causes of the Cuban Revolution
Timber
42. 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
Explain how history is reflected in the literature
Jacobo Arbenz
United Fruit Company
Mexican Revolution
43. Ten percent of Mexicans are ...
Causes of the Cuban Revolution
realistic
illiterate (cant read or write)
thirty-three (33)
44. Fray Antonio de Montesinos and Fray Bartolome de las Casas opposed the exerminio ..
Augusto Cesar Sandino
realistic
Jacobo Arbenz
Indians
45. 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 ..
thirty-three (33)
Explain how history is reflected in the literature
Jose Marti
students
46. Channel control passed to the Panamanians in ...
1999
Latin American realism
United Fruit Company
Indians
47. Jose Marti - Julian del Casal - Jose Asuncion Silva and Manuel Gutierrez Najera are initiators of ...
Antonio Conselherio
Lazaro Cardenas
Jacobo Arbenz
modernism
48. This religious preacher and leader of Canudos imporant figure in novels Euclydes da Cunha Brazilian and Peruvian Mario Vargas Llosa.
Panama's independence
Antonio Conselherio
a commonwealth
muralists
49. 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
El Salvador
They Were the romance languages - latin --- not spanish - french italian
Jorge Luis Borges
Somoza family
50. ...
Explain how history is reflected in the literature
Hopscotch
Costa Rica
Advantages and disadvantages of the Commonwealth