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Latin American Culture And Civilization

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1. 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.






2. 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.






3. 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.






4. 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






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






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






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






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






9. 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






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






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






12. The fundamental objective of Hispanic realism seemed to go against the Latin American artistic desire. By offering a slice of life - a writer is unable to show the full reality of the new world I wanted to say - because this new school had at its cor






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






14. 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






15. 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






16. 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






17. 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






18. 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.






19. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






26. This is the acutal leader of Cuba


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






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






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






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






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






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






33. Ten percent of Mexicans are ...






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






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






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






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






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






39. 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.






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






41. 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






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






43. Today - Puerto Rico is ...






44. Bogota






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






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






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






48. Cuba is in the ______ sea






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






50. 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.