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Latin American Culture And Civilization

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1. 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






2. 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






3. 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.






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






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






6. 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.






7. Cuba is in the ______ sea






8. It is said that the traits fundmentales ethos of the Cuban summary will ...






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






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






11. ...






12. 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






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






14. 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






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






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






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






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






19. 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






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






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






22. 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.






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






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






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






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






27. Since 1949 ______ has no army.






28. 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






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


30. ...






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






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






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






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






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






36. 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 ..






37. America is not only...






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






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






40. 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.






41. 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.






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






43. 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






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






45. The name by which Puerto Ricans refer to themselves is ...






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






47. 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






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






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






50. 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