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Latin American Culture And Civilization

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1. 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






2. 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






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






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






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






6. 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






7. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






14. 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






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






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






18. 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






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






20. 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






21. America is not only...






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






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






24. Minor C. Keith helped found the ...






25. 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.






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






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






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






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






31. This is the acutal leader of Cuba

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32. 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.






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






34. 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






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






36. 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






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






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






39. ...






40. Ten percent of Mexicans are ...






41. Spain's signature popular dishes






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. 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






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






45. 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






46. Latin America is not a...






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






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






50. _____ is not a part of Latin America