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Latin American Culture And Civilization
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1. This modernist Nicaraguan considered the most important poet in Castilian from the Golden Age
Gerardo Machado Morales
Jacobo Arbenz
church
Ruben Dario
2. This noble spirit is the greatest hero of Cubans of all political stripes.
the imposition of a control regime tyrannical dictatorship that fought for the revolution.
manufacturing
Jose Marti
1999
3. 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
Balun Canan
modernism
Jose Marti
4. Bogota
They Were the romance languages - latin --- not spanish - french italian
realistic
Athens of South America
Albizu Campos
5. 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
1917 Constitution
Somoza family
Advantages and disadvantages of the Commonwealth
Borinquineers
6. 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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7. 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.
Gran Colombia
church
U.S. intervention in the Dominican Republic
William Walker
8. The Cuban leader was famous for his enemies throw at sharks.
Gerardo Machado Morales
church
Mexican Revolution
Athens of South America
9. This religious preacher and leader of Canudos imporant figure in novels Euclydes da Cunha Brazilian and Peruvian Mario Vargas Llosa.
Gran Colombia
the guachafita
Antonio Conselherio
Mexican Revolution
10. 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
Ruben Dario
Mexican Revolution
Treaty of Ancon
Jacobo Arbenz
11. 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.
Antonio Conselherio
Hopscotch
Raul Salinas de Gotari
Borinquineers
12. The Honduran patriot is considered 'father of the nation'
Emiliano Zapata
Francisco Morazan
Timber
realistic
13. 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
manufacturing
Gran Colombia
Panama's independence
Augusto Cesar Sandino
14. In Facundo or Civilization and Barbarism by Domingo Faustino Sarmiento - barbarism is represented by ...
Americanism
Hopscotch
Francisco Madero
The characteristics of violence in Columbia
15. ...
Explain how history is reflected in the literature
thirty-three (33)
Carlota
Francisco Madero
16. This country is the smallest but most densely populated Central
the U.S.
1917 Constitution
Raul Castro (Fidel's brother)
El Salvador
17. 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.
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Morazan
Augusto Cesar Sandino
Andres Bello
18. 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
Jose Marti
Ruben Dario
Jose Marti
the bogotazo
19. 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.
illiterate (cant read or write)
Raul Salinas de Gotari
Shoe
Puerto Rico
20. Which of the achievements of the Cuban Revolution does not belong?
the imposition of a control regime tyrannical dictatorship that fought for the revolution.
1999
gaucho (cowboy)
choteo
21. a 'male whim' held by men in Puerto Rico is ..
Porfirio Diaz
the guachafita
Poetry
Ruben Dario
22. The chief of the Taino Indians on this island made a serious mistake when he Cristobol Colon ragalo to a gold ornament.
silver
Puerto Rico
1999
Explain how history is reflected in the literature
23. Fausto - Santos Vega and Martin Fierro - are the poetic genre ...
Jose Santos Zelaya
gaucho (cowboy)
1917 Constitution
Carlota
24. As Balzac - Goncourt - Zola and Dickens - Alberto Blest Gana is fundamentally ...
realistic
students
1999
an independent country
25. 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
Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
the bogotazo
parella - tortilla
Platt Amendment
26. In this novel by Julio Cortazar - the reader can start at any chapter and continue with an order to your liking.
Hopscotch
Poetry
compare and contrast the Spanish American modernism with Brazilian modernism
modernism
27. 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.
Oscar Arias Sanchez
Columbia
Timber
U.S. intervention in the Dominican Republic
28. the brightest Nicaraguan history has been the poet ...
El Salvador
the bogotazo
Ruben Dario
Markos Commandante
29. 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
Augusto Sandino
Poetry
Latin American realism
the guachafita
30. ...
Jose Santos Zelaya
Somoza family
compare and contrast the Spanish American modernism with Brazilian modernism
The outstanding features of the new Latin American novelar technique
31. From colonial times - Mexico has been the leading producer of ...
Puerto Rico
Timber
silver
the bogotazo
32. Gabriela Mistral - Pablo Neruda and Octavio Paz have been honored with the Nobel Prize in Literature for his (s) ...
continent
Poetry
Americanism
Francisco Morazan
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
The characteristics of violence in Columbia
Balun Canan
Raul Castro (Fidel's brother)
an independent country
34. 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
Porfirio Diaz
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Markos Commandante
Augusto Cesar Sandino
35. The Panamanian leader was captured - tried and imprisoned in the U.S..
Manuel Antonio Noriega
Francisco Madero
Athens of South America
Jacobo Arbenz
36. 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
Jacobo Arbenz
compare and contrast the Spanish American modernism with Brazilian modernism
Antonio Conselherio
They Were the romance languages - latin --- not spanish - french italian
37. This novel of 1967 helped this Colombian mocho win the Nobel Prize for Literature.
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Columbia
Porfirio Diaz
Morazan
38. most Latin Americans are in favor of Puerto Rico as ...
an independent country
a commonwealth
Jose Marti
Ruben Dario
39. 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
manufacturing
Trujillo
compare and contrast the Spanish American modernism with Brazilian modernism
Lazaro Cardenas
40. 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.
William Walker
Benito Juarez
Augusto Sandino
Antonio Conselherio
41. It is said that the traits fundmentales ethos of the Cuban summary will ...
Raul Castro (Fidel's brother)
Augusto Cesar Sandino
choteo
democratic Caesarism
42. In his 'Address to the poetry' - this master of Simon Bolivar was one of the first to make explicit clearly longing for intellectual independence.
1999
Andres Bello
gaucho (cowboy)
the U.S.
43. This Costa Rican received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1987 for his Central American peace plan.
Francisco Madero
Oscar Arias Sanchez
Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
Porfirio Diaz
44. This president expropriated lands - nationalized oil and railways for the benefit of the dispossessed.
an independent country
Shoe
Lazaro Cardenas
Indians
45. Today - Puerto Rico is ...
Antonio Lopez de Santa Ana
a commonwealth
continent
Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
46. This is the acutal leader of Cuba
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47. when Mexico became independent - the richest landowner was ..
Raul Salinas de Gotari
democratic Caesarism
They Were the romance languages - latin --- not spanish - french italian
church
48. Diego Rivera - Jose Clemente Orozco and David Alfaro Siqueiros are famous ...
1999
Lazaro Cardenas
Hatuey
muralists
49. This Dominican tyrant did kidnap a professor lantinoamericana civilization - secretly take Santodomingo - tortuarlo and murder.
Rafael Leonidas Trujillo
an independent country
Timber
Augusto Cesar Sandino
50. 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
United Fruit Company
Santa Anna
El Salvador
gaucho (cowboy)