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Latin American Culture And Civilization

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






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






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






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






5. 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






6. 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






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






8. Ten percent of Mexicans are ...






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






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






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






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. 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






14. 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






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






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






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






19. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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. 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






27. Historically - before being republic - Panama was part of ...






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






29. 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






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






31. 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






32. 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






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






34. 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.






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






36. 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






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






38. 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.






39. 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.






40. ...






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






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






43. 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






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






45. _____ is not a part of Latin America






46. This is the acutal leader of Cuba

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47. 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 ..






48. Since 1949 ______ has no army.






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






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