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Latin American Culture And Civilization

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






2. 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.






3. 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






4. 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.






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






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






8. Latin America is not a...






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






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






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






12. 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






13. 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.






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






16. most Latin Americans are in favor of Puerto Rico as ...






17. In his 'Address to the poetry' - this master of Simon Bolivar was one of the first to make explicit clearly longing for intellectual independence.






18. Minor C. Keith helped found the ...






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






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






21. 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.






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






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






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






25. This noble spirit is the greatest hero of Cubans of all political stripes.






26. 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






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






28. 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






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






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






31. 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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32. 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






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






34. 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






35. The atmosphere of terror of the dictatorship of Estrada Cabrera was captured by the Nobel Prize winner for Literature Miguel Angel Asturias's novel ...






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






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






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






40. This is considered by some critics as the most eminent writer Brazilian and Latin American novelist best nineteenth LMIS






41. 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






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






43. 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






44. 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






45. 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 ..






46. Today - Puerto Rico is ...






47. It is said that the traits fundmentales ethos of the Cuban summary will ...






48. 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






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






50. Ten percent of Mexicans are ...