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Latin American Culture And Civilization
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1. 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.
Caribbean
William Walker
Francisco Madero
Jorge Luis Borges
2. Latin America is not a...
Platt Amendment
Francisco Morazan
Benito Juarez
continent
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.
Honduras
Andres Bello
Caribbean
Lazaro Cardenas
4. 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
Jose Marti
Jose Santos Zelaya
the imposition of a control regime tyrannical dictatorship that fought for the revolution.
Platt Amendment
5. 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.
Emiliano Zapata
Timber
Francisco Madero
Porfirio Diaz
6. 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
Somoza family
Carlota
manufacturing
Balun Canan
7. 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
Treaty of Ancon
Manuel Antonio Noriega
compare and contrast the Spanish American modernism with Brazilian modernism
manufacturing
8. Minor C. Keith helped found the ...
U.S. intervention in the Dominican Republic
United Fruit Company
Hopscotch
Raul Castro (Fidel's brother)
9. 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.
Augusto Cesar Sandino
Hatuey
Oscar Arias Sanchez
Benito Juarez
10. 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 ..
students
Americanism
Antonio Conselherio
Mexican Revolution
11. From colonial times - Mexico has been the leading producer of ...
silver
Jorge Luis Borges
United Fruit Company
Ruben Dario
12. 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
Causes of the Cuban Revolution
Honduras
Treaty of Ancon
Benito Juarez
13. Since 1949 ______ has no army.
The President
Andres Bello
Indians
Costa Rica
14. 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
Platt Amendment
1917 Constitution
Caribbean
Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
15. 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
Mexican Revolution
manufacturing
Porfirio Diaz
The characteristics of violence in Columbia
16. The United Fruit Company passionately combated guatemaletco reforms ....
Lazaro Cardenas
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Jacobo Arbenz
Indians
17. The Cuban leader was famous for his enemies throw at sharks.
Gerardo Machado Morales
Shoe
1917 Constitution
Andres Bello
18. The chief of the Taino Indians on this island made a serious mistake when he Cristobol Colon ragalo to a gold ornament.
Columbia
United Fruit Company
Puerto Rico
Explain how history is reflected in the literature
19. 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
an independent country
The characteristics of violence in Columbia
Andres Bello
Andres Bello
20. The Panamanian leader was captured - tried and imprisoned in the U.S..
Advantages and disadvantages of the Commonwealth
Markos Commandante
Manuel Antonio Noriega
Balun Canan
21. 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
Tlatelolco
muralists
Trujillo
Honduras
22. This is considered by some critics as the most eminent writer Brazilian and Latin American novelist best nineteenth LMIS
U.S. intervention in the Dominican Republic
Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
Lazaro Cardenas
church
23. 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
Costa Rica
Explain how history is reflected in the literature
Lazaro Cardenas
Porfirio Diaz
24. Diego Rivera - Jose Clemente Orozco and David Alfaro Siqueiros are famous ...
Latin American realism
muralists
Platt Amendment
Morazan
25. This patriot nicarguense rose up against the U.S. occupation forces.
Jorge Luis Borges
Augusto Cesar Sandino
Antonio Lopez de Santa Ana
manufacturing
26. The Honduran patriot is considered 'father of the nation'
Francisco Morazan
a commonwealth
Benito Juarez
Treaty of Ancon
27. 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
Athens of South America
Antonio Conselherio
Gerardo Machado Morales
Jose Marti
28. This noble Indian was convinced that 'it is better to die on your feet than live on your knees'
Manuel Antonio Noriega
El Salvador
Emiliano Zapata
Americanism
29. 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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30. Today - Puerto Rico is ...
Hatuey
realistic
a commonwealth
Markos Commandante
31. 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.
Puerto Rico
democratic Caesarism
the U.S.
They Were the romance languages - latin --- not spanish - french italian
32. 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
William Walker
Tlatelolco
Caribbean
33. This president expropriated lands - nationalized oil and railways for the benefit of the dispossessed.
the bogotazo
The characteristics of violence in Columbia
Lazaro Cardenas
Americanism
34. Fray Antonio de Montesinos and Fray Bartolome de las Casas opposed the exerminio ..
Indians
Jose Marti
1917 Constitution
choteo
35. The atmosphere of terror of the dictatorship of Estrada Cabrera was captured by the Nobel Prize winner for Literature Miguel Angel Asturias's novel ...
continent
Athens of South America
The President
Advantages and disadvantages of the Commonwealth
36. Addition to Castilian - many language families exist in the country?
Jorge Luis Borges
thirty-three (33)
Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
manufacturing
37. Spain's signature popular dishes
Tlatelolco
parella - tortilla
Manuel Antonio Noriega
They Were the romance languages - latin --- not spanish - french italian
38. ...
Raul Salinas de Gotari
Oscar Arias Sanchez
Explain how history is reflected in the literature
Mexican Revolution
39. Jose Marti - Julian del Casal - Jose Asuncion Silva and Manuel Gutierrez Najera are initiators of ...
choteo
Shoe
modernism
El Salvador
40. As Balzac - Goncourt - Zola and Dickens - Alberto Blest Gana is fundamentally ...
manufacturing
continent
realistic
Benito Juarez
41. 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
Morazan
Santa Anna
Lazaro Cardenas
Ruben Dario
42. In this novel by Julio Cortazar - the reader can start at any chapter and continue with an order to your liking.
Hopscotch
Gran Colombia
Shoe
the bogotazo
43. The person most responsible for many of the arbitrary government of Maximilian was ...
Lazaro Cardenas
Carlota
manufacturing
El Salvador
44. The Underdogs by Mariano Azuela - is one of the best novels ...
The Mexican Revolution
Timber
Porfirio Diaz
Gerardo Machado Morales
45. 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
Explain how history is reflected in the literature
Somoza family
Augusto Sandino
Columbia
46. 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.
Jacobo Arbenz
Raul Salinas de Gotari
El Salvador
Somoza family
47. The poems - stories and essays in this Argentine sequidores have had many in recent decades
Jorge Luis Borges
Hatuey
Athens of South America
a commonwealth
48. This Dominican tyrant did kidnap a professor lantinoamericana civilization - secretly take Santodomingo - tortuarlo and murder.
Rafael Leonidas Trujillo
Jose Marti
Lazaro Cardenas
Manuel Antonio Noriega
49. 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
Porfirio Diaz
Emiliano Zapata
Jacobo Arbenz
Athens of South America
50. when Mexico became independent - the richest landowner was ..
Carlota
United Fruit Company
church
gaucho (cowboy)