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Latin American Culture And Civilization

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






2. 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.






3. 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






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






5. 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.






6. 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






7. 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






8. Minor C. Keith helped found the ...






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






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






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. 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






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14. Bolivar's dream was to unify Latin America in a large political entity. So in 1819 established in Angostura (now Ciudad Bolivar) the Republic of Colombia - comprised of the territories that today belong to Venezuela - Colombia - Panama and Ecuador. T






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






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






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






18. 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






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






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






21. _____ is not a part of Latin America






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






23. 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.






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






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






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






27. Spain's signature popular dishes






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






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






30. This is the acutal leader of Cuba

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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






41. ...






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






43. 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






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






45. America is not only...






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






47. 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.






48. 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 ..






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






50. 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