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Latin American Culture And Civilization

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






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






3. _____ is not a part of Latin America






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






5. 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






6. 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






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






8. 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






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






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






11. 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.






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






13. 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.






14. 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.






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






16. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






22. Spain's signature popular dishes






23. 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






24. Cuba is in the ______ sea






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






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






27. Minor C. Keith helped found the ...






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






29. 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






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






31. 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






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






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






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






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






36. Latin America is not a...






37. 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






38. 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 ..






39. Bogota






40. 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






41. 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






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






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






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






45. 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






46. 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






47. This is the acutal leader of Cuba

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






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






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