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Latin American Culture And Civilization

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






2. 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






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






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






5. 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






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






7. Minor C. Keith helped found the ...






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






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






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






11. This is considered by some critics as the most eminent writer Brazilian and Latin American novelist best nineteenth LMIS






12. 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






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






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






15. 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.






16. 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 ..






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






18. This is the acutal leader of Cuba


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






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






21. Ten percent of Mexicans are ...






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






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






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






25. 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.






26. 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.






27. 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






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






29. 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.






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






31. 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






32. Spain's signature popular dishes






33. 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.






34. Today - Puerto Rico is ...






35. 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






36. 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






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






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






39. Latin America is not a...






40. 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






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






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






43. 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






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






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






46. This novel of 1967 helped this Colombian mocho win the Nobel Prize for Literature.






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






48. 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.






49. 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






50. 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