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Latin American Culture And Civilization

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






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






3. Bogota






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






5. 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






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






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






8. 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






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






10. 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






11. 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






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






13. Spain's signature popular dishes






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






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






16. Since 1949 ______ has no army.






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






18. Failing all attempts to achieve intellectual independence own artistic expression - a group of poets began the revitalization of literature in Castilian. His aesthetic soon won in Latin America and influenced the writers of Spain. Then they exchanged






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






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






21. 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.






22. 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






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






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






25. America is not only...






26. Minor C. Keith helped found the ...






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






28. 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






29. 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 ..






30. 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.






31. Cuba is in the ______ sea






32. 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






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






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






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






36. 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






37. 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






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. This country is the smallest but most densely populated Central






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






41. ...






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






43. most significantly the turbulent period was the abolition of slavery - proclaimed earlier than most of the Americas. In these circumstances - Spain tried to reconquer the country - but the Mexican forces led by General Spanish imperialists foiled the






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






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






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






47. 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






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






49. 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






50. 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