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Latin American Culture And Civilization

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






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






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






4. 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.






5. 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






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






7. ...






8. 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






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






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






11. 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






12. 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






13. 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.






14. 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






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






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






17. 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






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






19. 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






20. ...






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






22. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






29. 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






30. 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






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






32. 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






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






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






35. 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






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






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38. 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.






39. _____ is not a part of Latin America






40. 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






41. 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.






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






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






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






45. 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






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






47. Ten percent of Mexicans are ...






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






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






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