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Latin American Culture And Civilization

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1. 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






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






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






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






5. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






14. 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






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






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






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






18. 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






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






20. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






26. ...






27. Spain's signature popular dishes






28. 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.






29. 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






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






31. 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






32. 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






33. before election fraud and government waste - the opposition candidate launched the famous Plan de San Luis Potosi; policy proposal considered a call to rebellion that began the Mexican Revolution. He was proclaimed provisional president in 1911.






34. 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






35. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






42. 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






43. The brother of a president has been accused of being the mastermind in murder and having received bribes of millions of dollars from drug traffickers.






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






45. America is not only...






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






47. 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






48. 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






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






50. 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