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Latin American Culture And Civilization

Subject : culture
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1. The person most responsible for many of the arbitrary government of Maximilian was ...






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






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






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






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






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






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






9. This is the acutal leader of Cuba

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10. 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






11. 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.






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






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






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






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






16. ...






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






18. In his 'Address to the poetry' - this master of Simon Bolivar was one of the first to make explicit clearly longing for intellectual independence.






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






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






21. Ten percent of Mexicans are ...






22. 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






23. on 1 January 1994 - the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN) started the armed struggle in the southern state of Chiapas - led by Subcomandante supposedly identified as Rafael Sebastian Guillen Vicente - exprofessor Metropolitina Autonomous U






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






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






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






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






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






29. _____ is not a part of Latin America






30. 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.






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






32. 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






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






34. 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






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






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






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






38. 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






39. 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.






40. Spain's signature popular dishes






41. ...






42. 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






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






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






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






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






47. Since 1949 ______ has no army.






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






49. 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 ..






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