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Latin American Culture And Civilization

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






2. Today - Puerto Rico is ...






3. Cuba is in the ______ sea






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






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






6. 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






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






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






9. America is not only...






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






11. 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






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






13. Latin America is not a...






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






15. 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.






16. 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






17. 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






18. 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






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






20. Ten percent of Mexicans are ...






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






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






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






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






25. ...






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






27. Since 1949 ______ has no army.






28. 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.






29. 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.






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






31. 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






32. Minor C. Keith helped found the ...






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






34. 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.






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






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






37. 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






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






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






40. This is the acutal leader of Cuba

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41. Bogota






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






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






44. 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.






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






46. 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






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






50. 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







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