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Latin American Culture And Civilization

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1. 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






2. Cuba is in the ______ sea






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






4. This is the acutal leader of Cuba

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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






16. Minor C. Keith helped found the ...






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






18. 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






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






20. 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






21. 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






22. 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.






23. 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.






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






25. 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






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






27. 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






28. ...






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






40. 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






41. 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






42. 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






43. Since 1949 ______ has no army.






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






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






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






47. 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.






48. 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






49. 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






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