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Latin American Culture And Civilization

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






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






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






4. 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 ..






5. ...






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






7. 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.






8. 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.






9. 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






10. 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






11. 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






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






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






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






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






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






17. 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.






18. 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






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






20. 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






21. 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






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






23. Ten percent of Mexicans are ...






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






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






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






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






28. Today - Puerto Rico is ...






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






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






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






32. 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






33. Bogota






34. Latin America is not a...






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






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






37. 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






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






39. 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






40. 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






41. 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.






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






43. America is not only...






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






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






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






47. 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






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






49. 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.






50. This is considered by some critics as the most eminent writer Brazilian and Latin American novelist best nineteenth LMIS







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