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Latin American Culture And Civilization

Subject : culture
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1. 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






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






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






4. Bogota






5. 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






6. The United Fruit Company passionately combated guatemaletco reforms ....






7. 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






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






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






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






11. 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






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






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






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






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






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






17. The chief of the Taino Indians on this island made a serious mistake when he Cristobol Colon ragalo to a gold ornament.






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






19. ...






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21. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






27. 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






28. 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






29. 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.






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






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






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






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






34. 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






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






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






37. Minor C. Keith helped found the ...






38. 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.






39. Latin America is not a...






40. Cuba is in the ______ sea






41. 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






42. Today - Puerto Rico is ...






43. 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 ..






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






45. 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






46. 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






47. Since 1949 ______ has no army.






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






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






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