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Latin American Culture And Civilization

Subject : culture
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1. The main source of income for Puerto Rico now is ...






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






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






4. 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.






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






6. 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.






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






8. Cuba is in the ______ sea






9. 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






10. ...






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






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






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






15. 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






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






17. 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






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






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






21. Ten percent of Mexicans are ...






22. Latin America is not a...






23. 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






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






25. Today - Puerto Rico is ...






26. 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






27. This is the acutal leader of Cuba

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28. 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






29. 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






30. ...






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






32. America is not only...






33. 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






34. 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






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






36. 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






37. 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.






38. _____ is not a part of Latin America






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






40. Bogota






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






42. 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






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






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






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






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






47. 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






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






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






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