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Latin American Culture And Civilization

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1. 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






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






3. ...






4. 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






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






6. 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






7. This noble Indian was convinced that 'it is better to die on your feet than live on your knees'






8. 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






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






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






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






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






13. 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






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






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






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






17. Minor C. Keith helped found the ...






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






19. 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 ..






20. 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.






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






22. 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.






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






24. 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






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






26. 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






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






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






29. 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






30. Ten percent of Mexicans are ...






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






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






33. 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.






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






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






37. Latin America is not a...






38. 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






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






40. This is the acutal leader of Cuba


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






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






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






44. 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






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






46. 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.






47. 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.






48. 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






49. 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






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