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Latin American Culture And Civilization

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1. _____ is not a part of Latin America






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






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






4. 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






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






6. Today - Puerto Rico is ...






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






8. 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.






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






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






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






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






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.






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






15. Minor C. Keith helped found the ...






16. Spain's signature popular dishes






17. 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






18. 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 ..






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






20. 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.






21. Ten percent of Mexicans are ...






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






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






24. 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.






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






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






27. 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






28. Bogota






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






30. Since 1949 ______ has no army.






31. 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






32. 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.






33. 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






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






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






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






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






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






39. 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






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






41. 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






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






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






44. Cuba is in the ______ sea






45. 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






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






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






48. 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.






49. 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






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