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Latin American Culture And Civilization

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






3. 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.






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






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






6. 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






7. 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






8. 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.






9. Latin America is not a...






10. 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






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






12. 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.






13. ...






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






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






16. 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






17. 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






18. 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






19. In this novel by Julio Cortazar - the reader can start at any chapter and continue with an order to your liking.






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






21. 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 ..






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






23. 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






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






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






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






27. 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






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






29. 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






30. Minor C. Keith helped found the ...






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






32. 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






33. Today - Puerto Rico is ...






34. 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






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






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






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






39. 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.






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






41. 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






42. 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.






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






44. the brightest Nicaraguan history has been the poet ...






45. Cuba is in the ______ sea






46. _____ is not a part of Latin America






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






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






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






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