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Latin American Culture And Civilization
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1. 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
1917 Constitution
Gerardo Machado Morales
Andres Bello
democratic Caesarism
2. Fausto - Santos Vega and Martin Fierro - are the poetic genre ...
Rafael Leonidas Trujillo
U.S. intervention in the Dominican Republic
gaucho (cowboy)
the guachafita
3. 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
The outstanding features of the new Latin American novelar technique
Morazan
Jose Santos Zelaya
the U.S.
4. The Underdogs by Mariano Azuela - is one of the best novels ...
Jose Marti
The Mexican Revolution
The outstanding features of the new Latin American novelar technique
1999
5. This is the acutal leader of Cuba
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6. This patriot nicarguense rose up against the U.S. occupation forces.
Ruben Dario
The Mexican Revolution
Raul Salinas de Gotari
Augusto Cesar Sandino
7. This country is the smallest but most densely populated Central
El Salvador
Causes of the Cuban Revolution
compare and contrast the Spanish American modernism with Brazilian modernism
Albizu Campos
8. 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
Manuel Antonio Noriega
modernism
the bogotazo
Porfirio Diaz
9. This noble Indian was convinced that 'it is better to die on your feet than live on your knees'
Jose Santos Zelaya
Lazaro Cardenas
Emiliano Zapata
Platt Amendment
10. 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.
Porfirio Diaz
Santa Anna
democratic Caesarism
United Fruit Company
11. In Facundo or Civilization and Barbarism by Domingo Faustino Sarmiento - barbarism is represented by ...
Carlota
Ruben Dario
The characteristics of violence in Columbia
Americanism
12. The Panamanian leader was captured - tried and imprisoned in the U.S..
the bogotazo
the guachafita
Columbia
Manuel Antonio Noriega
13. The name by which Puerto Ricans refer to themselves is ...
the bogotazo
Americanism
Gran Colombia
Borinquineers
14. when Mexico became independent - the richest landowner was ..
Gerardo Machado Morales
Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
illiterate (cant read or write)
church
15. ...
church
Jacobo Arbenz
Augusto Cesar Sandino
Explain how history is reflected in the literature
16. 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
the U.S.
Porfirio Diaz
Borinquineers
The characteristics of violence in Columbia
17. Since 1949 ______ has no army.
Costa Rica
Borinquineers
Ruben Dario
continent
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. 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
Augusto Sandino
Advantages and disadvantages of the Commonwealth
compare and contrast the Spanish American modernism with Brazilian modernism
Andres Bello
20. ...
Francisco Morazan
Timber
Tlatelolco
The outstanding features of the new Latin American novelar technique
21. 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.
Oscar Arias Sanchez
Poetry
Andres Bello
Raul Salinas de Gotari
22. most Latin Americans are in favor of Puerto Rico as ...
an independent country
Francisco Madero
Puerto Rico
Panama's independence
23. a 'male whim' held by men in Puerto Rico is ..
the guachafita
The Mexican Revolution
1999
Ruben Dario
24. 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
Santa Anna
Oscar Arias Sanchez
Panama's independence
realistic
25. 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
Lazaro Cardenas
Albizu Campos
muralists
One Hundred Years of Solitude
26. The Cuban leader was famous for his enemies throw at sharks.
Oscar Arias Sanchez
1917 Constitution
Gerardo Machado Morales
Raul Salinas de Gotari
27. Jose Marti - Julian del Casal - Jose Asuncion Silva and Manuel Gutierrez Najera are initiators of ...
Latin American realism
Poetry
Albizu Campos
modernism
28. Mexico lost almost half of its territory to the U.S. Under the terms of ...
Mexican Revolution
Treaty of Ancon
Borinquineers
Balun Canan
29. This religious preacher and leader of Canudos imporant figure in novels Euclydes da Cunha Brazilian and Peruvian Mario Vargas Llosa.
Athens of South America
thirty-three (33)
Antonio Lopez de Santa Ana
Antonio Conselherio
30. This novel of 1967 helped this Colombian mocho win the Nobel Prize for Literature.
Carlota
the guachafita
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Somoza family
31. Historically - before being republic - Panama was part of ...
Lazaro Cardenas
choteo
Columbia
Augusto Cesar Sandino
32. Cuba is in the ______ sea
1917 Constitution
Timber
Caribbean
gaucho (cowboy)
33. Minor C. Keith helped found the ...
thirty-three (33)
silver
United Fruit Company
Antonio Lopez de Santa Ana
34. Ten percent of Mexicans are ...
Lazaro Cardenas
Timber
illiterate (cant read or write)
Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
35. Bogota
The characteristics of violence in Columbia
Athens of South America
parella - tortilla
Morazan
36. 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
Platt Amendment
muralists
Manuel Antonio Noriega
Puerto Rico
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
Lazaro Cardenas
compare and contrast the Spanish American modernism with Brazilian modernism
Advantages and disadvantages of the Commonwealth
Hatuey
38. 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.
Tlatelolco
Balun Canan
Benito Juarez
Athens of South America
39. 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
Jose Marti
Rafael Leonidas Trujillo
Causes of the Cuban Revolution
Athens of South America
40. This defeated Mexican General Jim Bowie - Davy Crockett and the Texans at the Alamo.
Jorge Luis Borges
Antonio Lopez de Santa Ana
illiterate (cant read or write)
parella - tortilla
41. 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.
Andres Bello
Albizu Campos
The President
Antonio Conselherio
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
students
Emiliano Zapata
Augusto Cesar Sandino
Jose Marti
43. This modernist Nicaraguan considered the most important poet in Castilian from the Golden Age
Ruben Dario
the guachafita
Shoe
Latin American realism
44. This cacique (tyrant) Cuban said 'If the Spanish can be in heaven - I'd rather go to hell'
Caribbean
Hatuey
church
Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
45. Rosario Castellanos - the new Indian school - leaves the reader see the world through Indian eyes of a seven year old girl in ...
Somoza family
The characteristics of violence in Columbia
Ruben Dario
Balun Canan
46. Latin America is not a...
church
continent
gaucho (cowboy)
Emiliano Zapata
47. America is not only...
Antonio Lopez de Santa Ana
Albizu Campos
the U.S.
Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
48. It is said that the traits fundmentales ethos of the Cuban summary will ...
The outstanding features of the new Latin American novelar technique
Santa Anna
choteo
Jose Marti
49. one of the more unscrupulous dictatorship was that of Nicaragua who won his country the peace of prison.
Jose Santos Zelaya
church
Advantages and disadvantages of the Commonwealth
Rafael Leonidas Trujillo
50. Gabriela Mistral - Pablo Neruda and Octavio Paz have been honored with the Nobel Prize in Literature for his (s) ...
Balun Canan
Augusto Sandino
Poetry
Ruben Dario