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Latin American Culture And Civilization

Subject : culture
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1. 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






2. Cuba is in the ______ sea






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






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






5. 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.






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






7. 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






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






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






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






11. 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






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






13. Today - Puerto Rico is ...






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






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






16. ...






17. 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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18. Bogota






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






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






21. 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.






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






23. 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






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






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






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






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






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






29. 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






30. 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 ..






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






32. Minor C. Keith helped found the ...






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






34. 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.






35. 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






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






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






38. 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






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






40. The atmosphere of terror of the dictatorship of Estrada Cabrera was captured by the Nobel Prize winner for Literature Miguel Angel Asturias's novel ...






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






42. The main source of income for Puerto Rico now 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. Which of the achievements of the Cuban Revolution does not belong?






45. 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






46. Spain's signature popular dishes






47. Since 1949 ______ has no army.






48. ...






49. 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






50. 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.