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Latin American Culture And Civilization

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






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






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






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






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






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






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






8. Today - Puerto Rico is ...






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






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






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






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






14. 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






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






16. 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.






17. 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






18. 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 ..






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






20. ...






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






22. 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.






23. 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






24. 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






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






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






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






28. 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






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






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






31. 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






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






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






34. 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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35. 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






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






37. 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.






38. Ten percent of Mexicans are ...






39. Latin America is not a...






40. 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






41. 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.






42. 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






43. Cuba is in the ______ sea






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






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






46. 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






47. 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






48. Bogota






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






50. _____ is not a part of Latin America