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Latin American Culture And Civilization

Subject : culture
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1. Diego Rivera - Jose Clemente Orozco and David Alfaro Siqueiros are famous ...






2. 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






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






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






5. 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






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






7. Cuba is in the ______ sea






8. Latin America is not a...






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






10. 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 ..






11. 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.






12. 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.






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






15. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






26. 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






27. Today - Puerto Rico is ...






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






29. Since 1949 ______ has no army.






30. 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.






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






32. 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






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






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






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






36. Spain's signature popular dishes






37. 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.






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






39. This is the acutal leader of Cuba


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






41. 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






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






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






44. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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