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Latin American Culture And Civilization

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1. In Facundo or Civilization and Barbarism by Domingo Faustino Sarmiento - barbarism is represented by ...






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






3. 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






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






5. Ten percent of Mexicans are ...






6. 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






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






8. 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.






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






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






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






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






13. 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






14. 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






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






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






17. Bogota






18. 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






19. Spain's signature popular dishes






20. ...






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






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






24. _____ is not a part of Latin America






25. 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






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






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






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






29. 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






30. 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.






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






32. 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.






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






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






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






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






37. 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






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






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






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






41. Addition to Castilian - many language families exist in the country?






42. 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






43. This is the acutal leader of Cuba


44. Latin America is not a...






45. 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.






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






47. 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






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






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






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