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Latin American Culture And Civilization

Subject : culture
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1. As Balzac - Goncourt - Zola and Dickens - Alberto Blest Gana is fundamentally ...






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






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






4. 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.






5. 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.






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






7. 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.






8. 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






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






10. 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






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






12. 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.






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






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






15. Since 1949 ______ has no army.






16. America is not only...






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






18. 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






19. 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






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






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






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






23. Bogota






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






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






26. 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






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






28. 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






29. 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






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






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






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






34. ...






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






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






37. 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






38. Minor C. Keith helped found the ...






39. Ten percent of Mexicans are ...






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






41. 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






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






43. Cuba is in the ______ sea






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






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






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






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






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






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






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