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Latin American Culture And Civilization

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






2. Ten percent of Mexicans are ...






3. 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






4. Bogota






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






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






7. administrative integrity and dynamism he conquered much popularity. Conducted more work for the benefit of the dispossessed classes than their predecessors. Implemented the Constitution of 1917 - land was expropriated and distributed forty-five milli






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






9. This is the acutal leader of Cuba


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






11. 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.






12. 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






13. 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






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






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






16. _____ is not a part of Latin America






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






18. 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






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






20. 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.






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






22. 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.






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






24. 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






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






26. 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






27. Since 1949 ______ has no army.






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






29. 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 ..






30. ...






31. 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






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






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






34. America is not only...






35. Cuba is in the ______ sea






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






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






38. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






48. Today - Puerto Rico is ...






49. 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.






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