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Latin American Culture And Civilization

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






2. 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






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






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






5. Ten percent of Mexicans are ...






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






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






8. 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.






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






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






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






12. 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.






13. Latin America is not a...






14. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






22. In this novel by Julio Cortazar - the reader can start at any chapter and continue with an order to your liking.






23. _____ is not a part of Latin America






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






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






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






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






28. 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.






29. Cuba is in the ______ sea






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






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






32. This is the acutal leader of Cuba

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33. America is not only...






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






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






36. ...






37. few years later - came Luis Munoz Marin. It began as a nationalist patriot - but eventually changed his political philosophy by replacing the concept of the Commonwealth - ie domestic autonomy without international legal personality. Mu






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






39. 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.






40. 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.






41. 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






42. 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






43. 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






44. 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






45. 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






46. 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






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






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






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






50. 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.







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