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Latin American Culture And Civilization

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1. America is not only...






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






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






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






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






6. 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.






7. 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






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






9. 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.






10. 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






11. 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.






12. 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






13. Today - Puerto Rico is ...






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






15. 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.






16. 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 ..






17. 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






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






19. Buenaventura Baez - a former puppet Santana - another traitor - since the presidency conspired to grant special rights and naval bases to the United States - prior to its full annexation. President Ulysses S. Grant enthusiastically supported the anne






20. 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






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






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






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






24. ...






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






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






27. Latin America is not a...






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






29. 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






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






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






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






33. 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






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






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






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






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






38. Spain's signature popular dishes






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






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






41. 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.






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






43. Cuba is in the ______ sea






44. 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






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






46. Bogota






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






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






49. 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






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