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Latin American Culture And Civilization

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1. 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.






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






3. 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.






4. Spain's signature popular dishes






5. 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.






6. 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






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






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






9. 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.






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






11. 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






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






13. 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 ..






14. 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






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






16. _____ is not a part of Latin America






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






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






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






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






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






22. Ten percent of Mexicans are ...






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






24. 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






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






26. 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






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






28. Minor C. Keith helped found the ...






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






30. Today - Puerto Rico is ...






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






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






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






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






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






36. Bogota






37. America is not only...






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






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






40. 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






41. 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






42. 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






43. 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






44. 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






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






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






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






48. 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






49. 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.






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







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