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Latin American Culture And Civilization

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1. Cuba is in the ______ sea






2. 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






3. 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 ..






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






5. 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






6. Latin America is not a...






7. the brightest Nicaraguan history has been the poet ...






8. 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






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






10. 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.






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






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






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






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






15. 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.






16. Ten percent of Mexicans are ...






17. 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.






18. _____ is not a part of Latin America






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






20. This is the acutal leader of Cuba


21. 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






22. Since 1949 ______ has no army.






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






24. 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






25. 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






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






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






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






29. 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.






30. Today - Puerto Rico is ...






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






32. 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






33. 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






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






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






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






37. Spain's signature popular dishes






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






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






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






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






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.






43. 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






44. 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






45. 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.






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






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






48. 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






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






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