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Latin American Culture And Civilization

Subject : culture
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1. Fausto - Santos Vega and Martin Fierro - are the poetic genre ...






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






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






4. 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.






5. 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.






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






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






8. 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






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






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






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






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






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






14. Latin America is not a...






15. Bogota






16. America is not only...






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






18. _____ is not a part of Latin America






19. 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






20. ...






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






22. Intellectuals and university students - allied with some army sergeants - deposed tyrant. One of these - Fulgencio Batista - stenographer of Staff - gave the final blow to the dictatorship. Opened in period that became the absolute ruler or the emine






23. 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






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






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






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






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






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






29. 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






30. 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






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






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






33. 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.






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






35. 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






36. ...






37. 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.






38. 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 ..






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






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






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






42. 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






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






45. 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






46. 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






47. Somoza dynasty was fought by guerrilla followers of the ideology of Sandino. The oppression and corruption of the Somoza popular recrimination. Finally the different sectors - forgetting ideological differences - came together and defeated the Somoza






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






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






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







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