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Latin American Culture And Civilization

Subject : culture
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1. This is the acutal leader of Cuba

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






4. 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.






5. _____ is not a part of Latin America






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






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






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






9. 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.






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






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






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






13. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






21. 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






22. 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.






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






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






25. 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






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






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






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






29. Cuba is in the ______ sea






30. 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 ..






31. Today - Puerto Rico is ...






32. 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






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






34. 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






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






36. Since 1949 ______ has no army.






37. 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






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






39. Ten percent of Mexicans are ...






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






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






42. 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






43. 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






44. 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






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






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






47. Spain's signature popular dishes






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






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






50. 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