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Latin American Culture And Civilization

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1. 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






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






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






4. 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






5. ...






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






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. 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.






9. 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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10. The United Fruit Company passionately combated guatemaletco reforms ....






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






12. a 'male whim' held by men in Puerto Rico is ..






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






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






15. This is the acutal leader of Cuba

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16. Latin America is not a...






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






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






19. America is not only...






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






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






22. 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






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






24. 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






25. 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.






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






27. 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






28. 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






29. 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






30. 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.






31. 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






32. basing his rule on this philosophy - Porfirio Diaz wanted to transform the country 'scientifically'






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






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






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






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






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






38. 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.






39. _____ is not a part of Latin America






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






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






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






43. 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






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






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






46. ...






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






48. 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






49. of 1909-1933 Nicaragua suffered heavily U.S. intervention - guided by the dollar diplomacy. United States first imposed its customs control and then occupied the country with Marine detachments. The occupation was unopposed until 1927 - when the gene






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