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Latin American Culture And Civilization
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1. From colonial times - Mexico has been the leading producer of ...
silver
The outstanding features of the new Latin American novelar technique
Poetry
Andres Bello
2. 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
Indians
Platt Amendment
democratic Caesarism
Augusto Cesar Sandino
3. 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
Markos Commandante
an independent country
Santa Anna
Advantages and disadvantages of the Commonwealth
4. 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
Francisco Madero
Hatuey
U.S. intervention in the Dominican Republic
Morazan
5. The Cuban leader was famous for his enemies throw at sharks.
El Salvador
Gerardo Machado Morales
the bogotazo
Hatuey
6. The person most responsible for many of the arbitrary government of Maximilian was ...
Honduras
Jose Marti
manufacturing
Carlota
7. Latin America is not so called because the first people spoke Latin.
Gran Colombia
They Were the romance languages - latin --- not spanish - french italian
Balun Canan
Antonio Conselherio
8. 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.
El Salvador
Jacobo Arbenz
democratic Caesarism
Gerardo Machado Morales
9. 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
Albizu Campos
Raul Castro (Fidel's brother)
Latin American realism
realistic
10. 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
Porfirio Diaz
Poetry
Causes of the Cuban Revolution
Emiliano Zapata
11. Jose Marti - Julian del Casal - Jose Asuncion Silva and Manuel Gutierrez Najera are initiators of ...
Ruben Dario
William Walker
Carlota
modernism
12. As Balzac - Goncourt - Zola and Dickens - Alberto Blest Gana is fundamentally ...
realistic
thirty-three (33)
the U.S.
El Salvador
13. Rosario Castellanos - the new Indian school - leaves the reader see the world through Indian eyes of a seven year old girl in ...
Balun Canan
Raul Castro (Fidel's brother)
Antonio Lopez de Santa Ana
Rafael Leonidas Trujillo
14. 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
Carlota
democratic Caesarism
Albizu Campos
the bogotazo
15. Ten percent of Mexicans are ...
Somoza family
illiterate (cant read or write)
Hopscotch
Honduras
16. The main source of income for Puerto Rico now is ...
Balun Canan
manufacturing
Timber
democratic Caesarism
17. This novel of 1967 helped this Colombian mocho win the Nobel Prize for Literature.
Francisco Morazan
Caribbean
One Hundred Years of Solitude
El Salvador
18. The United Fruit Company passionately combated guatemaletco reforms ....
Balun Canan
Augusto Sandino
Jacobo Arbenz
Hatuey
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 ...
The President
manufacturing
realistic
Puerto Rico
20. In Facundo or Civilization and Barbarism by Domingo Faustino Sarmiento - barbarism is represented by ...
Americanism
the guachafita
Panama's independence
Balun Canan
21. Which of the achievements of the Cuban Revolution does not belong?
Albizu Campos
the imposition of a control regime tyrannical dictatorship that fought for the revolution.
Jose Marti
silver
22. This is the acutal leader of Cuba
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23. Fausto - Santos Vega and Martin Fierro - are the poetic genre ...
compare and contrast the Spanish American modernism with Brazilian modernism
Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
gaucho (cowboy)
Hopscotch
24. Historically - before being republic - Panama was part of ...
Andres Bello
Jose Santos Zelaya
Columbia
continent
25. This defeated Mexican General Jim Bowie - Davy Crockett and the Texans at the Alamo.
Antonio Lopez de Santa Ana
Borinquineers
Jose Marti
William Walker
26. most Latin Americans are in favor of Puerto Rico as ...
Gran Colombia
Advantages and disadvantages of the Commonwealth
an independent country
The characteristics of violence in Columbia
27. This modernist Nicaraguan considered the most important poet in Castilian from the Golden Age
Balun Canan
Jose Marti
the bogotazo
Ruben Dario
28. 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.
Benito Juarez
continent
compare and contrast the Spanish American modernism with Brazilian modernism
Antonio Lopez de Santa Ana
29. 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
continent
Antonio Lopez de Santa Ana
1917 Constitution
Costa Rica
30. In his 'Address to the poetry' - this master of Simon Bolivar was one of the first to make explicit clearly longing for intellectual independence.
Andres Bello
Timber
Latin American realism
Gran Colombia
31. This country is the smallest but most densely populated Central
Gran Colombia
Lazaro Cardenas
El Salvador
The Mexican Revolution
32. a 'male whim' held by men in Puerto Rico is ..
continent
Jose Marti
the guachafita
Panama's independence
33. 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
Lazaro Cardenas
Tlatelolco
Mexican Revolution
Puerto Rico
34. ...
U.S. intervention in the Dominican Republic
The outstanding features of the new Latin American novelar technique
realistic
Raul Salinas de Gotari
35. This Dominican tyrant did kidnap a professor lantinoamericana civilization - secretly take Santodomingo - tortuarlo and murder.
U.S. intervention in the Dominican Republic
Rafael Leonidas Trujillo
Columbia
thirty-three (33)
36. This Costa Rican received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1987 for his Central American peace plan.
Costa Rica
Borinquineers
1917 Constitution
Oscar Arias Sanchez
37. In this novel by Julio Cortazar - the reader can start at any chapter and continue with an order to your liking.
Hopscotch
modernism
Lazaro Cardenas
Mexican Revolution
38. This Central American country is known derisively as the 'banana republic'
Honduras
Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
The President
Benito Juarez
39. 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.
Andres Bello
Porfirio Diaz
Latin American realism
Borinquineers
40. 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
The characteristics of violence in Columbia
El Salvador
United Fruit Company
students
41. Spain's signature popular dishes
Francisco Madero
parella - tortilla
the bogotazo
Manuel Antonio Noriega
42. 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
the guachafita
Andres Bello
Raul Castro (Fidel's brother)
Morazan
43. Since 1949 ______ has no army.
Rafael Leonidas Trujillo
The characteristics of violence in Columbia
Costa Rica
Latin American realism
44. This president expropriated lands - nationalized oil and railways for the benefit of the dispossessed.
Jorge Luis Borges
Platt Amendment
Borinquineers
Lazaro Cardenas
45. 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
Borinquineers
Augusto Cesar Sandino
parella - tortilla
Causes of the Cuban Revolution
46. Minor C. Keith helped found the ...
modernism
Gran Colombia
The Mexican Revolution
United Fruit Company
47. This noble Indian was convinced that 'it is better to die on your feet than live on your knees'
Emiliano Zapata
Gerardo Machado Morales
Porfirio Diaz
a commonwealth
48. 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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49. It is said that the traits fundmentales ethos of the Cuban summary will ...
choteo
the imposition of a control regime tyrannical dictatorship that fought for the revolution.
Santa Anna
Benito Juarez
50. Addition to Castilian - many language families exist in the country?
Latin American realism
thirty-three (33)
Morazan
Poetry