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Latin American Culture And Civilization

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






2. 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






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






4. 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.






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






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






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






8. 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






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






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






11. 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






12. 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






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






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






15. Cuba is in the ______ sea






16. 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.






17. 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






18. Since 1949 ______ has no army.






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






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






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






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






23. 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






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






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






26. Minor C. Keith helped found the ...






27. 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.






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






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






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






31. 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






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






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






34. _____ is not a part of Latin America






35. 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






36. This noble Indian was convinced that 'it is better to die on your feet than live on your knees'






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






38. ...






39. Ten percent of Mexicans are ...






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






42. 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.






43. 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






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






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






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






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. This Dominican tyrant did kidnap a professor lantinoamericana civilization - secretly take Santodomingo - tortuarlo and murder.






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






50. 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