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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
Shoe
modernism
the bogotazo
Antonio Lopez de Santa Ana
2. basing his rule on this philosophy - Porfirio Diaz wanted to transform the country 'scientifically'
the imposition of a control regime tyrannical dictatorship that fought for the revolution.
Francisco Madero
Costa Rica
1917 Constitution
3. 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
Lazaro Cardenas
Gran Colombia
Raul Salinas de Gotari
4. 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.
Gerardo Machado Morales
Jacobo Arbenz
modernism
democratic Caesarism
5. _____ is not a part of Latin America
Latin American realism
Jorge Luis Borges
Puerto Rico
Lazaro Cardenas
6. America is not only...
Morazan
the U.S.
the imposition of a control regime tyrannical dictatorship that fought for the revolution.
Poetry
7. This noble spirit is the greatest hero of Cubans of all political stripes.
Jose Marti
Somoza family
Porfirio Diaz
Puerto Rico
8. Fausto - Santos Vega and Martin Fierro - are the poetic genre ...
Costa Rica
gaucho (cowboy)
Ruben Dario
Poetry
9. This religious preacher and leader of Canudos imporant figure in novels Euclydes da Cunha Brazilian and Peruvian Mario Vargas Llosa.
Antonio Conselherio
Porfirio Diaz
Raul Salinas de Gotari
the bogotazo
10. one of the more unscrupulous dictatorship was that of Nicaragua who won his country the peace of prison.
Lazaro Cardenas
Jose Santos Zelaya
Francisco Madero
Raul Castro (Fidel's brother)
11. The United Fruit Company passionately combated guatemaletco reforms ....
Tlatelolco
Raul Castro (Fidel's brother)
Manuel Antonio Noriega
Jacobo Arbenz
12. 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
Morazan
compare and contrast the Spanish American modernism with Brazilian modernism
Gerardo Machado Morales
muralists
13. In his 'Address to the poetry' - this master of Simon Bolivar was one of the first to make explicit clearly longing for intellectual independence.
Jose Santos Zelaya
Benito Juarez
Andres Bello
Panama's independence
14. This noble Indian was convinced that 'it is better to die on your feet than live on your knees'
Manuel Antonio Noriega
The President
Emiliano Zapata
Tlatelolco
15. This Dominican tyrant did kidnap a professor lantinoamericana civilization - secretly take Santodomingo - tortuarlo and murder.
Somoza family
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Rafael Leonidas Trujillo
Treaty of Ancon
16. ...
choteo
Mexican Revolution
Explain how history is reflected in the literature
church
17. This modernist Nicaraguan considered the most important poet in Castilian from the Golden Age
Columbia
Jorge Luis Borges
church
Ruben Dario
18. This country is the smallest but most densely populated Central
Markos Commandante
Gerardo Machado Morales
Albizu Campos
El Salvador
19. a 'male whim' held by men in Puerto Rico is ..
United Fruit Company
Jorge Luis Borges
the guachafita
thirty-three (33)
20. Historically - before being republic - Panama was part of ...
students
a commonwealth
Porfirio Diaz
Columbia
21. 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
Indians
Lazaro Cardenas
Jose Marti
1917 Constitution
22. The Honduran patriot is considered 'father of the nation'
Francisco Morazan
Trujillo
Raul Salinas de Gotari
Jorge Luis Borges
23. Spain's signature popular dishes
Jacobo Arbenz
continent
thirty-three (33)
parella - tortilla
24. The person most responsible for many of the arbitrary government of Maximilian was ...
Lazaro Cardenas
democratic Caesarism
Carlota
Francisco Madero
25. As Balzac - Goncourt - Zola and Dickens - Alberto Blest Gana is fundamentally ...
Gerardo Machado Morales
Porfirio Diaz
realistic
Jose Marti
26. 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.
William Walker
Jacobo Arbenz
The President
students
27. The Cuban leader was famous for his enemies throw at sharks.
The President
Jacobo Arbenz
Gerardo Machado Morales
Oscar Arias Sanchez
28. This novel of 1967 helped this Colombian mocho win the Nobel Prize for Literature.
One Hundred Years of Solitude
1999
illiterate (cant read or write)
an independent country
29. when Mexico became independent - the richest landowner was ..
Platt Amendment
the bogotazo
Jose Santos Zelaya
church
30. From colonial times - Mexico has been the leading producer of ...
silver
U.S. intervention in the Dominican Republic
Mexican Revolution
Lazaro Cardenas
31. Latin America is not so called because the first people spoke Latin.
Albizu Campos
Tlatelolco
They Were the romance languages - latin --- not spanish - french italian
Jose Marti
32. Bogota
Raul Castro (Fidel's brother)
Athens of South America
Timber
Santa Anna
33. Channel control passed to the Panamanians in ...
manufacturing
Hatuey
Manuel Antonio Noriega
1999
34. The name by which Puerto Ricans refer to themselves is ...
Lazaro Cardenas
Borinquineers
Andres Bello
Francisco Madero
35. In Facundo or Civilization and Barbarism by Domingo Faustino Sarmiento - barbarism is represented by ...
Andres Bello
Hopscotch
Americanism
democratic Caesarism
36. Mexico lost almost half of its territory to the U.S. Under the terms of ...
Treaty of Ancon
Poetry
Porfirio Diaz
Panama's independence
37. 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
parella - tortilla
Augusto Sandino
Augusto Cesar Sandino
Balun Canan
38. 'Effective suffrage - no reelection' was the ironic slogan ...
Porfirio Diaz
Causes of the Cuban Revolution
Manuel Antonio Noriega
Poetry
39. Ten percent of Mexicans are ...
Santa Anna
illiterate (cant read or write)
Morazan
Andres Bello
40. 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.
Jorge Luis Borges
Andres Bello
a commonwealth
Manuel Antonio Noriega
41. 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.
Hopscotch
muralists
Jacobo Arbenz
the bogotazo
42. 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
Advantages and disadvantages of the Commonwealth
illiterate (cant read or write)
modernism
Santa Anna
43. 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
Puerto Rico
Gran Colombia
Honduras
Poetry
44. 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
Trujillo
Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
1999
modernism
45. 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
continent
Indians
parella - tortilla
Markos Commandante
46. ...
The outstanding features of the new Latin American novelar technique
Rafael Leonidas Trujillo
Raul Castro (Fidel's brother)
Oscar Arias Sanchez
47. Cuba is in the ______ sea
Latin American realism
Porfirio Diaz
Caribbean
church
48. Gabriela Mistral - Pablo Neruda and Octavio Paz have been honored with the Nobel Prize in Literature for his (s) ...
Francisco Madero
Poetry
1917 Constitution
Puerto Rico
49. This is considered by some critics as the most eminent writer Brazilian and Latin American novelist best nineteenth LMIS
Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
Treaty of Ancon
Jacobo Arbenz
Morazan
50. It is said that the traits fundmentales ethos of the Cuban summary will ...
William Walker
Antonio Conselherio
choteo
Puerto Rico