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Latin American Culture And Civilization

Subject : culture
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1. This country is the smallest but most densely populated Central






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






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






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






5. 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.






6. 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






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. 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.






9. ...






10. America is not only...






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






12. 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.






13. 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.






14. 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






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






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






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






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






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






20. 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






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






22. 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.






23. 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






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






25. Rosario Castellanos - the new Indian school - leaves the reader see the world through Indian eyes of a seven year old girl in ...






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






27. _____ is not a part of Latin America






28. 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






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






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






31. Today - Puerto Rico is ...






32. 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






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






34. Since 1949 ______ has no army.






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






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






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






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






39. 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






40. 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.






41. 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 ..






42. 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






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






44. Bogota






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






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






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






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






49. Cuba is in the ______ sea






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