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Latin American Culture And Civilization

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






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






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






4. 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.






5. Latin America is not a...






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






7. 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.






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






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






10. 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.






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






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






13. 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.






14. 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






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






16. ...






17. 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






18. Since 1949 ______ has no army.






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






20. 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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21. This defeated Mexican General Jim Bowie - Davy Crockett and the Texans at the Alamo.






22. 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






23. America is not only...






24. Spain's signature popular dishes






25. 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






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






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






28. 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.






29. 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






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






31. 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






32. This is the acutal leader of Cuba

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






34. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






42. 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






43. Ten percent of Mexicans are ...






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






45. 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 ..






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






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






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






49. 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






50. ...