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Latin American Culture And Civilization

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1. 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






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. America is not only...






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






5. 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






6. 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






7. In 1930 Trujillo assumed absolute powers of their homeland. He ruled for thirty years as if the country were his personal fiefdom. The tyrant imposed a reign of terror in the Dominican Republic - while its overseas agents carried out their plans to t






8. 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






9. 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






10. ...






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






12. Ten percent of Mexicans are ...






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






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






15. 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






16. 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






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






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






19. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






26. This Central American country is known derisively as the 'banana republic'






27. Latin America is not a...






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






29. Today - Puerto Rico is ...






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






31. 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






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






33. 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.






34. 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.






35. 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.






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






37. 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






38. 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






39. 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






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






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






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






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






44. This is the acutal leader of Cuba


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






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






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






48. 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






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






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