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Latin American Culture And Civilization

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1. 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






2. Gabriela Mistral - Pablo Neruda and Octavio Paz have been honored with the Nobel Prize in Literature for his (s) ...






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






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






5. 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.






6. 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






7. 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.






8. 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






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






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






11. Minor C. Keith helped found the ...






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






13. Cuba is in the ______ sea






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






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






16. 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






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






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






19. 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






20. 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






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






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






23. Since 1949 ______ has no army.






24. America is not only...






25. 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






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






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






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






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






30. The person most responsible for many of the arbitrary government of Maximilian was ...






31. 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






32. 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






33. 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






34. 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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35. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






44. 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






45. ...






46. 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.






47. 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






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






49. 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






50. 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