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Latin American Culture And Civilization
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1. In this novel by Julio Cortazar - the reader can start at any chapter and continue with an order to your liking.
modernism
Hopscotch
Explain how history is reflected in the literature
Borinquineers
2. 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
Tlatelolco
Albizu Campos
Rafael Leonidas Trujillo
One Hundred Years of Solitude
3. 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
Rafael Leonidas Trujillo
Causes of the Cuban Revolution
compare and contrast the Spanish American modernism with Brazilian modernism
Raul Castro (Fidel's brother)
4. This is the acutal leader of Cuba
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5. 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.
Jacobo Arbenz
Advantages and disadvantages of the Commonwealth
The outstanding features of the new Latin American novelar technique
Shoe
6. The Honduran patriot is considered 'father of the nation'
Morazan
Francisco Morazan
the imposition of a control regime tyrannical dictatorship that fought for the revolution.
1917 Constitution
7. The Underdogs by Mariano Azuela - is one of the best novels ...
The characteristics of violence in Columbia
the U.S.
The Mexican Revolution
parella - tortilla
8. The atmosphere of terror of the dictatorship of Estrada Cabrera was captured by the Nobel Prize winner for Literature Miguel Angel Asturias's novel ...
The President
Morazan
Andres Bello
Panama's independence
9. This patriot nicarguense rose up against the U.S. occupation forces.
democratic Caesarism
choteo
Rafael Leonidas Trujillo
Augusto Cesar Sandino
10. The poems - stories and essays in this Argentine sequidores have had many in recent decades
Porfirio Diaz
Jorge Luis Borges
The President
Ruben Dario
11. Spain's signature popular dishes
parella - tortilla
The characteristics of violence in Columbia
compare and contrast the Spanish American modernism with Brazilian modernism
manufacturing
12. 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
Caribbean
Jacobo Arbenz
Lazaro Cardenas
Jose Marti
13. Diego Rivera - Jose Clemente Orozco and David Alfaro Siqueiros are famous ...
an independent country
muralists
continent
Panama's independence
14. 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.
continent
democratic Caesarism
Morazan
1999
15. This defeated Mexican General Jim Bowie - Davy Crockett and the Texans at the Alamo.
Antonio Lopez de Santa Ana
The Mexican Revolution
Platt Amendment
Somoza family
16. 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
Honduras
Timber
Augusto Sandino
Platt Amendment
17. America is not only...
Albizu Campos
Jorge Luis Borges
the U.S.
Ruben Dario
18. Minor C. Keith helped found the ...
United Fruit Company
Francisco Morazan
Hopscotch
The outstanding features of the new Latin American novelar technique
19. _____ is not a part of Latin America
Indians
continent
gaucho (cowboy)
Puerto Rico
20. Bogota
Athens of South America
Causes of the Cuban Revolution
Poetry
Jacobo Arbenz
21. 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
Timber
Augusto Sandino
Advantages and disadvantages of the Commonwealth
muralists
22. The name by which Puerto Ricans refer to themselves is ...
Treaty of Ancon
Athens of South America
muralists
Borinquineers
23. The United Fruit Company passionately combated guatemaletco reforms ....
U.S. intervention in the Dominican Republic
Jacobo Arbenz
The President
Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
24. 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
Andres Bello
Gran Colombia
Borinquineers
Raul Castro (Fidel's brother)
25. ...
an independent country
Manuel Antonio Noriega
gaucho (cowboy)
The outstanding features of the new Latin American novelar technique
26. 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
Poetry
Hatuey
realistic
Morazan
27. This president expropriated lands - nationalized oil and railways for the benefit of the dispossessed.
Augusto Cesar Sandino
Antonio Lopez de Santa Ana
the bogotazo
Lazaro Cardenas
28. 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
U.S. intervention in the Dominican Republic
muralists
Causes of the Cuban Revolution
Puerto Rico
29. 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.
Indians
The characteristics of violence in Columbia
Timber
The Mexican Revolution
30. when Mexico became independent - the richest landowner was ..
Columbia
Gran Colombia
church
Advantages and disadvantages of the Commonwealth
31. 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
Oscar Arias Sanchez
1917 Constitution
The outstanding features of the new Latin American novelar technique
thirty-three (33)
32. From colonial times - Mexico has been the leading producer of ...
Jacobo Arbenz
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Poetry
silver
33. Which of the achievements of the Cuban Revolution does not belong?
The President
the imposition of a control regime tyrannical dictatorship that fought for the revolution.
Lazaro Cardenas
Jacobo Arbenz
34. This modernist Nicaraguan considered the most important poet in Castilian from the Golden Age
Rafael Leonidas Trujillo
Carlota
Ruben Dario
The outstanding features of the new Latin American novelar technique
35. 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
choteo
Platt Amendment
Athens of South America
Santa Anna
36. Fausto - Santos Vega and Martin Fierro - are the poetic genre ...
The Mexican Revolution
gaucho (cowboy)
Poetry
Jacobo Arbenz
37. Latin America is not a...
Gran Colombia
United Fruit Company
Lazaro Cardenas
continent
38. ...
manufacturing
illiterate (cant read or write)
Panama's independence
Explain how history is reflected in the literature
39. Fray Antonio de Montesinos and Fray Bartolome de las Casas opposed the exerminio ..
Antonio Conselherio
Indians
Treaty of Ancon
U.S. intervention in the Dominican Republic
40. Gabriela Mistral - Pablo Neruda and Octavio Paz have been honored with the Nobel Prize in Literature for his (s) ...
the guachafita
Raul Castro (Fidel's brother)
Jorge Luis Borges
Poetry
41. 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
Causes of the Cuban Revolution
Antonio Conselherio
Somoza family
Albizu Campos
42. 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.
Latin American realism
Andres Bello
The President
Lazaro Cardenas
43. 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
Francisco Morazan
Causes of the Cuban Revolution
The characteristics of violence in Columbia
Lazaro Cardenas
44. 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
Morazan
Panama's independence
Hatuey
Mexican Revolution
45. It is said that the traits fundmentales ethos of the Cuban summary will ...
choteo
Hopscotch
Albizu Campos
the guachafita
46. The Panamanian leader was captured - tried and imprisoned in the U.S..
Manuel Antonio Noriega
a commonwealth
Morazan
Ruben Dario
47. Historically - before being republic - Panama was part of ...
silver
Panama's independence
Andres Bello
Columbia
48. Addition to Castilian - many language families exist in the country?
thirty-three (33)
illiterate (cant read or write)
Mexican Revolution
compare and contrast the Spanish American modernism with Brazilian modernism
49. basing his rule on this philosophy - Porfirio Diaz wanted to transform the country 'scientifically'
Indians
Advantages and disadvantages of the Commonwealth
Gran Colombia
Francisco Madero
50. 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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