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Latin American Culture And Civilization

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






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






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






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






6. 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






7. Since 1949 ______ has no army.






8. ...






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






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






11. Latin America is not a...






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






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






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






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






16. 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






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






19. Spain's signature popular dishes






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






21. 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.






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






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






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






25. 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






26. 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






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






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






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






30. 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






31. 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






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






33. 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






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






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






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






37. 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.






38. 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






39. 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






40. 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.






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






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






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






44. 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






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






46. America is not only...






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






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






49. Minor C. Keith helped found the ...






50. Cuba is in the ______ sea