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Latin American Culture And Civilization

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






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






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






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






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






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






8. 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






9. 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






10. 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






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






12. 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






13. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






23. 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






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






25. 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 ..






26. 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.






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






28. 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






29. Minor C. Keith helped found the ...






30. 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.






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






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






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






34. 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.






35. Cuba is in the ______ sea






36. 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






37. 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.






38. In 1930 Trujillo assumed absolute powers of their homeland. He ruled for thirty years as if the country were his personal fiefdom. The tyrant imposed a reign of terror in the Dominican Republic - while its overseas agents carried out their plans to t






39. 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






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






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






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






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






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






45. 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






46. 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






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






48. This is the acutal leader of Cuba

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