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Latin American Culture And Civilization

Subject : culture
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1. The name by which Puerto Ricans refer to themselves is ...






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






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






4. 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






5. Today - Puerto Rico is ...






6. 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






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






8. 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






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






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






11. 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






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






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






14. 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






15. 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.






16. Spain's signature popular dishes






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






18. Latin America is not a...






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






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






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






22. 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






23. 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






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






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






26. _____ is not a part of Latin America






27. Since 1949 ______ has no army.






28. Cuba is in the ______ sea






29. America is not only...






30. 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






31. 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.






32. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






40. 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.






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






42. 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






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






44. 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 ..






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






46. 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






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






48. 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






49. 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






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