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Latin American Culture And Civilization

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1. 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.






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






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






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






5. Spain's signature popular dishes






6. 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






7. This is the acutal leader of Cuba

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






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






10. ...






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






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






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






14. 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






15. 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






16. 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






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






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






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






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






21. 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.






22. 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.






23. 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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24. ...






25. 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






26. 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






27. America is not only...






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






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






30. Since 1949 ______ has no army.






31. 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.






32. 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






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






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






35. 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.






36. 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






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






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






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






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






41. 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.






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






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






44. 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 ..






45. _____ is not a part of Latin America






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






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






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






49. 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.






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