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Latin American Culture And Civilization

Subject : culture
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1. Jose Marti - Julian del Casal - Jose Asuncion Silva and Manuel Gutierrez Najera are initiators of ...






2. 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.






3. Cuba is in the ______ sea






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






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






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






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






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






9. 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






10. 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.






11. 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






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






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






14. _____ is not a part of Latin America






15. 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






16. 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






17. 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






18. 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






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






20. 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






21. 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






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






23. Bogota






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






25. This defeated Mexican General Jim Bowie - Davy Crockett and the Texans at the Alamo.






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






27. 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






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






29. 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 ..






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






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






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






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






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






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. 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. 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






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






39. Since 1949 ______ has no army.






40. 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






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






42. 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






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






44. attempts were made to end the chaos by a Conservative government - inspired by Generalissimo Franco's Falange. That government failed and was deposed by General Gustavo Rojas Pinilla. To maintain his dictatorship with the consent of the United States






45. This is the acutal leader of Cuba

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46. 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






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






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






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