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Latin American Culture And Civilization

Subject : culture
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1. 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.






2. Ten percent of Mexicans are ...






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






4. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






11. 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






12. the brightest Nicaraguan history has been the poet ...






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






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






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






16. 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






17. ...






18. 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






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






20. Since 1949 ______ has no army.






21. 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






22. 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






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






24. 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.






25. Minor C. Keith helped found the ...






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






27. 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






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






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






30. Latin America is not a...






31. This is the acutal leader of Cuba

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32. 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






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






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






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






36. 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






37. Cuba is in the ______ sea






38. 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






39. 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






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






41. 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.






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






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






44. Today - Puerto Rico is ...






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






46. _____ is not a part of Latin America






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






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






49. 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






50. Spain's signature popular dishes