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






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






4. _____ is not a part of Latin America






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






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






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






8. 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.






9. 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






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






11. 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






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






13. 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.






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






15. 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.






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






17. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






25. 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






26. ...






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






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






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






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






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






32. Spain's signature popular dishes






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






34. America is not only...






35. 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






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






37. 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.






38. 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






39. 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






40. Ten percent of Mexicans are ...






41. 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.






42. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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