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Latin American Culture And Civilization

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1. Ten percent of Mexicans are ...






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






3. 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.






4. 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






5. ...






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






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






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






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






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






11. 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






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






13. Spain's signature popular dishes






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






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






16. 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






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






18. 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






19. 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.






20. 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.






21. 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






22. 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






23. Historically - before being republic - Panama was part of ...






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






25. _____ is not a part of Latin America






26. Bogota






27. 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






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






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






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






31. 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.






32. 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






33. Rosario Castellanos - the new Indian school - leaves the reader see the world through Indian eyes of a seven year old girl in ...






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






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






36. Diego Rivera - Jose Clemente Orozco and David Alfaro Siqueiros are famous ...






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






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






39. 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.






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






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






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






43. 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






44. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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