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Latin American Culture And Civilization

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






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






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






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






5. 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






6. Minor C. Keith helped found the ...






7. ...






8. 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






9. 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






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






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






12. Today - Puerto Rico is ...






13. This is the acutal leader of Cuba


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






15. Cuba is in the ______ sea






16. America is not only...






17. Bolivar's dream was to unify Latin America in a large political entity. So in 1819 established in Angostura (now Ciudad Bolivar) the Republic of Colombia - comprised of the territories that today belong to Venezuela - Colombia - Panama and Ecuador. T






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






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






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






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






22. 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






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






24. Bogota






25. _____ is not a part of Latin America






26. 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






27. ...






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






29. 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.






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






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






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






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






34. 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






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






36. 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






37. 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






38. 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






39. 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.






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






41. 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


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






43. 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






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






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






46. liberalism division was due to the disappointment of those who opposed the recent policy of the regime ministers millionaires. In 1948 - while celebrating the Pan American Conference - Jorge Gaitan - leader of the leftist branch of liberalism - was k






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






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






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






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