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Latin American Culture And Civilization

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






2. Latin America is not a...






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






4. 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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5. 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






6. Bogota






7. 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






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






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






10. 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






11. 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






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






13. 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.






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






15. 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






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






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






18. 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






19. This is the acutal leader of Cuba

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






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






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






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






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






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






26. Since 1949 ______ has no army.






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






28. 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






29. 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






30. 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






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






32. 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.






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






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






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. 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






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. 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






39. Today - Puerto Rico is ...






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






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






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






43. 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.






44. ...






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






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






48. 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.






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






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







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