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Latin American Culture And Civilization

Subject : culture
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1. This country is the smallest but most densely populated Central






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






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






4. Bogota






5. The United Fruit Company passionately combated guatemaletco reforms ....






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






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






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






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






10. This is the acutal leader of Cuba

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11. 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.






12. 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






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






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






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






16. 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






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






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






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






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






21. Latin America is not a...






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






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






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






25. 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.






26. 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






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






28. 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






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






30. 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






31. Spain's signature popular dishes






32. 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.






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






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






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






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






37. 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.






38. 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.






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






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






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






43. 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






44. Cuba is in the ______ sea






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






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






47. 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






48. Today - Puerto Rico is ...






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






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