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Latin American Culture And Civilization

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






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






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






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






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






6. 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.






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






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






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






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






11. 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.






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






13. 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






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






15. 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 ..






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






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






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






19. 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






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






21. 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






22. 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






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






24. 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






25. 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






26. This is the acutal leader of Cuba

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






28. Minor C. Keith helped found the ...






29. 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






30. Cuba is in the ______ sea






31. 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.






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






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






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






35. 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






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






37. 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.






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






39. 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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40. 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






41. 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






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






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






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






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






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






47. Latin America is not a...






48. 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.






49. 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






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







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