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Latin American Culture And Civilization

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1. Since 1949 ______ has no army.






2. The Honduran patriot is considered 'father of the nation'






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






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






5. 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






6. 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.






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. 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






9. ...






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






11. Mexico lost almost half of its territory to the U.S. Under the terms of ...






12. 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.






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






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






15. 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






16. Gabriela Mistral - Pablo Neruda and Octavio Paz have been honored with the Nobel Prize in Literature for his (s) ...






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






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






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






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






21. 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.






22. 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






23. This is the acutal leader of Cuba

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






25. 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






26. _____ is not a part of Latin America






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






28. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






35. 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






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






37. Cuba is in the ______ sea






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






39. Today - Puerto Rico is ...






40. Spain's signature popular dishes






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






42. 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






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






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






45. 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






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






47. Minor C. Keith helped found the ...






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






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






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