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Latin American Culture And Civilization

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






2. 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.






3. 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






4. 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






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






6. 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






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






8. 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 ..






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






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






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






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






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






14. most Latin Americans are in favor of Puerto Rico as ...






15. 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.






16. Spain's signature popular dishes






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






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






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






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. Latin America is not a...






22. 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






23. Today - Puerto Rico is ...






24. 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






25. 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.






26. 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






27. 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.






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






29. 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.






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






31. This is the acutal leader of Cuba

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32. Since 1949 ______ has no army.






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






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






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






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






37. 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






38. 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






39. 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






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






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






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






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






46. 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.






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






48. 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.






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






50. ...







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