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Latin American Culture And Civilization

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






2. 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






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






4. 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.






5. _____ is not a part of Latin America






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






7. Cuba is in the ______ sea






8. Ten percent of Mexicans are ...






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






10. 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






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






12. 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






13. America is not only...






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






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






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






17. 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.






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






19. 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






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






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






22. 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






23. 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.






24. 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.






25. 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






26. 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

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27. 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






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






29. 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






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






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






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






33. 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.






34. 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.






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






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






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






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






39. 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






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






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






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






43. This is the acutal leader of Cuba

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






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






46. 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






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






48. Since 1949 ______ has no army.






49. Spain's signature popular dishes






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