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Latin American Culture And Civilization

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






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






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






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






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






6. 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






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






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






9. 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.






10. Latin America is not a...






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






12. This is the acutal leader of Cuba

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






14. 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






15. 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






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






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






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






19. 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






20. 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






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






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






23. 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.






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






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






26. 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






27. Bogota






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






29. 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






30. Since 1949 ______ has no army.






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






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






33. Minor C. Keith helped found the ...






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






35. 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






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






37. Ten percent of Mexicans are ...






38. 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






39. 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.






40. 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.






41. 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.






42. 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






43. 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.






44. Cuba is in the ______ sea






45. 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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46. 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.






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






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






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






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







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