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Latin American Culture And Civilization

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1. 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






2. 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






3. 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.






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






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






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






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






8. This is the acutal leader of Cuba


9. 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






10. 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






11. Latin America is not a...






12. 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






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






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






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






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






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






18. During the presidency of Gustavo Dias Ordaz - in the Plaza of the Three Cultures - in Tlateloco - police and political shock guard attacked a group of ..






19. 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






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






21. 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






22. Cuba is in the ______ sea






23. 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.






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






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






26. 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






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






28. 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






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






30. Since 1949 ______ has no army.






31. Spain's signature popular dishes






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






33. 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.






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






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






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






37. ...






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






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






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






41. 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






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






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






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






45. 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






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






47. 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.






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






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






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