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Latin American Culture And Civilization

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1. 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.






2. 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






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






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






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






6. ...






7. 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.






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






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






10. 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






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






12. 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






13. Spain's signature popular dishes






14. 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






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






16. 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






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






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






19. 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.






20. 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.






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






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






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






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






25. _____ is not a part of Latin America






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






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






28. 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






29. 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






30. Latin America is not a...






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






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






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






34. Ten percent of Mexicans are ...






35. 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






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






37. 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






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






39. This is the acutal leader of Cuba

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






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






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






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






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






45. 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






46. America is not only...






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






48. 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.






49. Cuba is in the ______ sea






50. Minor C. Keith helped found the ...







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