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Latin American Culture And Civilization

Subject : culture
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1. It is said that the traits fundmentales ethos of the Cuban summary will ...






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






3. Ten percent of Mexicans are ...






4. 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.






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






6. 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






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






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






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






10. 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






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






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






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






14. _____ is not a part of Latin America






15. Today - Puerto Rico is ...






16. Spain's signature popular dishes






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. Although geographically belongs to Central Panama - not always associated this country with the region politically - perhaps because for centuries has been linked to South America. Since Colombia became independent from Spain in 1821 - Panama was a


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






20. 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






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






22. 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.






23. 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






24. 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.






25. Cuba is in the ______ sea






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






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






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






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






30. 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 ..






31. 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






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






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






34. 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






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






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






37. 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.






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






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






40. Walker dreamed establish a slave empire in Central America which had himself elected president of Nicaragua in 1856. Seeing the danger - the other Central American governments fought the famous filibuster to defeat him and shoot him in 1860.






41. This is the acutal leader of Cuba


42. 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






43. ...






44. Latin America is not a...






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






46. 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






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






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






49. 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






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