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Latin American Culture And Civilization

Subject : culture
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1. This defeated Mexican General Jim Bowie - Davy Crockett and the Texans at the Alamo.






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






3. ...






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






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






6. 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






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






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






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






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






11. 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.






12. Cuba is in the ______ sea






13. 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






14. 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 ..






15. 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






16. 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.






17. 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.






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






19. 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






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






21. America is not only...






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






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






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






25. 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






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






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






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






30. 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.






31. 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






32. On the contrary - the crisis during the economic downturn accelerated the impoverishment and encouraged corruption. Hurricanes - which at that time were more intense and more destructive than usual - the situation worsened. In these circumstances - i






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






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






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






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






37. 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






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






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






40. Latin America is not a...






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






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






43. 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.






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






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






46. Ten percent of Mexicans are ...






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






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






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






50. 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