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Latin American Culture And Civilization

Subject : culture
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1. 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.






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






3. 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.






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






5. Bogota






6. Today - Puerto Rico is ...






7. 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






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






9. _____ is not a part of Latin America






10. 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






11. 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






12. of 1909-1933 Nicaragua suffered heavily U.S. intervention - guided by the dollar diplomacy. United States first imposed its customs control and then occupied the country with Marine detachments. The occupation was unopposed until 1927 - when the gene






13. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






20. 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.






21. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






28. Spain's signature popular dishes






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






38. America is not only...






39. 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






40. 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






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






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






43. 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.






44. on 1 January 1994 - the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN) started the armed struggle in the southern state of Chiapas - led by Subcomandante supposedly identified as Rafael Sebastian Guillen Vicente - exprofessor Metropolitina Autonomous U






45. 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






46. 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 ..






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






48. 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






49. Since 1949 ______ has no army.






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