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Latin American Culture And Civilization

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1. 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






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






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






4. 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






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






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






7. Ten percent of Mexicans are ...






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






9. 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






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






11. 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






12. Which of the achievements of the Cuban Revolution does not belong?






13. Minor C. Keith helped found the ...






14. when Mexico became independent - the richest landowner was ..






15. 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.






16. 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






17. 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 ..






18. 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






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






20. America is not only...






21. From colonial times - Mexico has been the leading producer of ...






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. This is the acutal leader of Cuba

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






25. 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






26. 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






27. Latin America is not a...






28. 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






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






30. 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






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






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






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






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






35. 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






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






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






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






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






41. 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






42. 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






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






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






45. 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.






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






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






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






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






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