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Latin American Culture And Civilization

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






2. 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






3. 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






4. Latin America is not a...






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






6. attempts were made to end the chaos by a Conservative government - inspired by Generalissimo Franco's Falange. That government failed and was deposed by General Gustavo Rojas Pinilla. To maintain his dictatorship with the consent of the United States






7. 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.






8. 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






9. 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.






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






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






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






13. Since 1949 ______ has no army.






14. 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.






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






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






17. 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






18. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






25. 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






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






27. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






37. ...






38. America is not only...






39. 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






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






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






42. Today - Puerto Rico is ...






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






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






45. Spain's signature popular dishes






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






47. In this novel by Julio Cortazar - the reader can start at any chapter and continue with an order to your liking.






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






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






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