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Latin American Culture And Civilization

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






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






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






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






5. 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






6. 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






7. 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






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. 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






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






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






12. 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






13. 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






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






15. 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.






16. 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.






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






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






19. 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 ..






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






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






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






23. Ten percent of Mexicans are ...






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






25. 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






26. 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






27. 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






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






29. 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.






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






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






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






33. ...






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






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






36. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






44. 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.






45. 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.






46. _____ is not a part of Latin America






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






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






49. 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






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