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Latin American Culture And Civilization

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1. America is not only...






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






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






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






5. Bogota






6. 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.






7. 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






8. 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






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






10. 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.






11. 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.






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






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






14. 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.






15. Since 1949 ______ has no army.






16. 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






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






18. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






30. 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






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






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






33. most significantly the turbulent period was the abolition of slavery - proclaimed earlier than most of the Americas. In these circumstances - Spain tried to reconquer the country - but the Mexican forces led by General Spanish imperialists foiled the






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






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






36. 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






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






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






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






40. 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






41. This is the acutal leader of Cuba

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






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






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






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






46. 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






47. 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






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






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






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