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Latin American Culture And Civilization

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1. 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






2. 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






3. 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






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






5. 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






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






7. 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






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






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






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






11. ...






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






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






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






15. 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






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






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






18. Since 1949 ______ has no army.






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






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






21. 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






22. Cuba is in the ______ sea






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






30. Spain's signature popular dishes






31. 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






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






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






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






35. 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






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






37. Ten percent of Mexicans are ...






38. 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






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






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






41. 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.






42. 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.






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






44. This is the acutal leader of Cuba

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






46. 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






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






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






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






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







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