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Latin American Culture And Civilization

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1. Since 1949 ______ has no army.






2. 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






3. 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






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






5. Spain's signature popular dishes






6. 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






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






8. 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






9. 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.






10. 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






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






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






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






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






15. 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






16. 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






17. _____ is not a part of Latin America






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






19. Ten percent of Mexicans are ...






20. 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 ..






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






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






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






24. 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






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






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






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






28. Today - Puerto Rico is ...






29. ...






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






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






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






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






34. 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






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






36. 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.






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






38. ...






39. one of the more unscrupulous dictatorship was that of Nicaragua who won his country the peace of prison.






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






41. 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






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






43. 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.






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






45. 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






46. 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.






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






48. This is the acutal leader of Cuba

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49. 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






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







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