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Latin American Culture And Civilization

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1. Ten percent of Mexicans are ...






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






3. Since 1949 ______ has no army.






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






5. This is the acutal leader of Cuba

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






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






9. 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






10. the U.S. occupation army remained in Cuba until 1902. In accordance with the Platt Amendment to the Cuban government is obliged not to conclude international treaties without U.S. consent - to authorize the establishment of naval bases in the United






11. 'Effective suffrage - no reelection' was the ironic slogan ...






12. 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






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






14. 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






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






16. 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






17. 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.






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






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






20. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






26. Latin America is not a...






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






28. 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.






29. Cuba is in the ______ sea






30. 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






31. 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






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






33. 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






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






35. This noble spirit is the greatest hero of Cubans of all political stripes.






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






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






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






39. The fundamental objective of Hispanic realism seemed to go against the Latin American artistic desire. By offering a slice of life - a writer is unable to show the full reality of the new world I wanted to say - because this new school had at its cor






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






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






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






43. 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.






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






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






46. 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






47. 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






48. Although geographically belongs to Central Panama - not always associated this country with the region politically - perhaps because for centuries has been linked to South America. Since Colombia became independent from Spain in 1821 - Panama was a

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






50. America is not only...