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Latin American Culture And Civilization

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






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






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






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






5. 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.






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






7. 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






8. 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






9. This is the acutal leader of Cuba

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






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






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






13. ...






14. basing his rule on this philosophy - Porfirio Diaz wanted to transform the country 'scientifically'






15. Spain's signature popular dishes






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






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






18. 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






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






20. 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






21. America is not only...






22. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






34. Ten percent of Mexicans are ...






35. 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






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






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






38. Bogota






39. 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






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






41. 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






42. 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.






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






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






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






46. Cuba is in the ______ sea






47. 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






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






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






50. when Mexico became independent - the richest landowner was ..