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Latin American Culture And Civilization

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1. Buenaventura Baez - a former puppet Santana - another traitor - since the presidency conspired to grant special rights and naval bases to the United States - prior to its full annexation. President Ulysses S. Grant enthusiastically supported the anne






2. Today - Puerto Rico is ...






3. 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.






4. 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






5. Latin America is not a...






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






7. ...






8. 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






9. 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






10. ...






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






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






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






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.






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






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






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






18. 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






19. This is the acutal leader of Cuba

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






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






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






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






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






25. 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






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






27. 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






28. 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






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






30. _____ is not a part of Latin America






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






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






33. 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






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






35. 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






36. Minor C. Keith helped found the ...






37. 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






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






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






40. 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






41. Cuba is in the ______ sea






42. Since 1949 ______ has no army.






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






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






45. 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.






46. 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.






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






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






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






50. 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.