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Latin American Culture And Civilization
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1. Channel control passed to the Panamanians in ...
1999
Borinquineers
muralists
Jacobo Arbenz
2. 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
Jose Marti
Explain how history is reflected in the literature
Hatuey
Mexican Revolution
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
illiterate (cant read or write)
Ruben Dario
Platt Amendment
Puerto Rico
4. ...
students
The outstanding features of the new Latin American novelar technique
parella - tortilla
Gerardo Machado Morales
5. 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 ..
students
1999
Oscar Arias Sanchez
Shoe
6. 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
Carlota
Albizu Campos
Jose Marti
7. The Panamanian leader was captured - tried and imprisoned in the U.S..
Manuel Antonio Noriega
Tlatelolco
Gran Colombia
Mexican Revolution
8. In this novel by Julio Cortazar - the reader can start at any chapter and continue with an order to your liking.
Santa Anna
thirty-three (33)
Hopscotch
Raul Salinas de Gotari
9. 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
1999
Causes of the Cuban Revolution
Athens of South America
Indians
10. Cuba is in the ______ sea
Caribbean
Indians
Explain how history is reflected in the literature
Jacobo Arbenz
11. 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.
democratic Caesarism
Andres Bello
Tlatelolco
Jose Marti
12. It is said that the traits fundmentales ethos of the Cuban summary will ...
the U.S.
silver
choteo
Carlota
13. As Balzac - Goncourt - Zola and Dickens - Alberto Blest Gana is fundamentally ...
Puerto Rico
realistic
Francisco Morazan
1999
14. 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.
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Jacobo Arbenz
Markos Commandante
Causes of the Cuban Revolution
15. This noble Indian was convinced that 'it is better to die on your feet than live on your knees'
Emiliano Zapata
Tlatelolco
Timber
church
16. 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
U.S. intervention in the Dominican Republic
Raul Castro (Fidel's brother)
Balun Canan
Puerto Rico
17. 'Effective suffrage - no reelection' was the ironic slogan ...
Puerto Rico
Costa Rica
Porfirio Diaz
Jose Santos Zelaya
18. 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.
Porfirio Diaz
Lazaro Cardenas
William Walker
an independent country
19. Spain's signature popular dishes
democratic Caesarism
Platt Amendment
Explain how history is reflected in the literature
parella - tortilla
20. The name by which Puerto Ricans refer to themselves is ...
the U.S.
Borinquineers
illiterate (cant read or write)
Honduras
21. Since 1949 ______ has no army.
Costa Rica
realistic
They Were the romance languages - latin --- not spanish - french italian
Francisco Madero
22. The chief of the Taino Indians on this island made a serious mistake when he Cristobol Colon ragalo to a gold ornament.
Puerto Rico
El Salvador
Jacobo Arbenz
Santa Anna
23. Ten percent of Mexicans are ...
1999
Augusto Sandino
illiterate (cant read or write)
The President
24. The Cuban leader was famous for his enemies throw at sharks.
Gerardo Machado Morales
the U.S.
Mexican Revolution
church
25. Bogota
Causes of the Cuban Revolution
Athens of South America
thirty-three (33)
the imposition of a control regime tyrannical dictatorship that fought for the revolution.
26. Minor C. Keith helped found the ...
Francisco Madero
Tlatelolco
Americanism
United Fruit Company
27. ...
The characteristics of violence in Columbia
Explain how history is reflected in the literature
thirty-three (33)
Puerto Rico
28. most Latin Americans are in favor of Puerto Rico as ...
an independent country
Jose Santos Zelaya
manufacturing
Tlatelolco
29. 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
Andres Bello
Rafael Leonidas Trujillo
Andres Bello
30. basing his rule on this philosophy - Porfirio Diaz wanted to transform the country 'scientifically'
muralists
Costa Rica
The President
Francisco Madero
31. _____ is not a part of Latin America
Jose Santos Zelaya
Puerto Rico
the imposition of a control regime tyrannical dictatorship that fought for the revolution.
Timber
32. 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
muralists
The characteristics of violence in Columbia
Trujillo
Columbia
33. This Dominican tyrant did kidnap a professor lantinoamericana civilization - secretly take Santodomingo - tortuarlo and murder.
muralists
1999
Rafael Leonidas Trujillo
Puerto Rico
34. 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
Santa Anna
Tlatelolco
continent
Antonio Conselherio
35. 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.
Augusto Sandino
Shoe
students
Antonio Conselherio
36. The Underdogs by Mariano Azuela - is one of the best novels ...
The Mexican Revolution
U.S. intervention in the Dominican Republic
Poetry
Jacobo Arbenz
37. the brightest Nicaraguan history has been the poet ...
Trujillo
choteo
Jacobo Arbenz
Ruben Dario
38. Today - Puerto Rico is ...
Costa Rica
a commonwealth
Ruben Dario
Manuel Antonio Noriega
39. The main source of income for Puerto Rico now is ...
manufacturing
Francisco Madero
Hatuey
Honduras
40. This Costa Rican received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1987 for his Central American peace plan.
Lazaro Cardenas
Borinquineers
Oscar Arias Sanchez
The outstanding features of the new Latin American novelar technique
41. 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
Carlota
realistic
Jose Marti
choteo
42. 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
Shoe
Latin American realism
Lazaro Cardenas
43. This president expropriated lands - nationalized oil and railways for the benefit of the dispossessed.
Lazaro Cardenas
Causes of the Cuban Revolution
Benito Juarez
Puerto Rico
44. 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
an independent country
U.S. intervention in the Dominican Republic
Advantages and disadvantages of the Commonwealth
Somoza family
45. In Facundo or Civilization and Barbarism by Domingo Faustino Sarmiento - barbarism is represented by ...
Antonio Conselherio
Americanism
democratic Caesarism
The outstanding features of the new Latin American novelar technique
46. The atmosphere of terror of the dictatorship of Estrada Cabrera was captured by the Nobel Prize winner for Literature Miguel Angel Asturias's novel ...
Emiliano Zapata
Advantages and disadvantages of the Commonwealth
The President
Morazan
47. one of the more unscrupulous dictatorship was that of Nicaragua who won his country the peace of prison.
Gran Colombia
Somoza family
continent
Jose Santos Zelaya
48. This is the acutal leader of Cuba
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49. Addition to Castilian - many language families exist in the country?
United Fruit Company
thirty-three (33)
students
Somoza family
50. In his 'Address to the poetry' - this master of Simon Bolivar was one of the first to make explicit clearly longing for intellectual independence.
Augusto Sandino
Andres Bello
Gran Colombia
parella - tortilla
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