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Latin American Culture And Civilization

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1. 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






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






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






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






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






6. Ten percent of Mexicans are ...






7. 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.






8. 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






9. 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






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






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






12. Minor C. Keith helped found the ...






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






14. 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






15. 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.






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






17. 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.






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






19. 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.






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






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






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






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






24. 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.






25. 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






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






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






28. 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






29. Since 1949 ______ has no army.






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






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






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






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






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






35. 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.






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






37. 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






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






39. 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 ..






40. 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.






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






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






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






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






45. _____ is not a part of Latin America






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






47. ...






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






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






50. ...