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Latin American Culture And Civilization

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






2. 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.






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






4. 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






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






6. 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.






7. 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






8. 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






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






10. 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






11. 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.






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






13. 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.






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






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






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






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






18. 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






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






20. 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.






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






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






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






24. Bogota






25. America is not only...






26. The Honduran patriot is considered 'father of the nation'






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






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






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






30. 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






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






32. This patriot nicarguense rose up against the U.S. occupation forces.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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. Latin America is not a...






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






42. Spain's signature popular dishes






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






44. 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.






45. Cuba is in the ______ sea






46. ...






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






48. 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






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






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