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Latin American Culture And Civilization

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1. 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






2. 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






3. 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.






4. Latin America is not a...






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






6. Since 1949 ______ has no army.






7. _____ is not a part of Latin America






8. 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.






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






10. Today - Puerto Rico is ...






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






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






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






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






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






16. Bogota






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






18. 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.






19. 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






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






21. 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






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






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






24. 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






25. Minor C. Keith helped found the ...






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






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






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. 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






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






31. America is not only...






32. ...






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






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






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






36. 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.






37. 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






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






39. 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






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






41. Cuba is in the ______ sea






42. 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






43. 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.






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






46. 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






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






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






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






50. 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







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