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Latin American Culture And Civilization

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1. 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






2. 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.






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






4. was a general role in the struggle against Maximilian. He was a conservative vain - accustomed to using rice powder to whiten the face. She is quoted as saying: << Poor Mexico - so far from God and so close to the United States >>. His autocratic rul






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






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






7. Ten percent of Mexicans are ...






8. 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 ..






9. This patriot nicarguense rose up against the U.S. occupation forces.






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






11. ...






12. 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






13. Bogota






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






15. 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.






16. Spain's signature popular dishes






17. 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






18. The Cuban leader was famous for his enemies throw at sharks.






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






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






21. 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






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






23. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






31. a 'male whim' held by men in Puerto Rico is ..






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






33. 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






34. America is not only...






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






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






37. 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






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






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






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. 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






42. 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






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






44. 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.






45. Historically - before being republic - Panama was part of ...






46. The Underdogs by Mariano Azuela - is one of the best novels ...






47. Latin America is not a...






48. This cacique (tyrant) Cuban said 'If the Spanish can be in heaven - I'd rather go to hell'






49. 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






50. Mexico lost almost half of its territory to the U.S. Under the terms of ...







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