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Latin American Culture And Civilization

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






2. 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






3. 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.






4. _____ is not a part of Latin America






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






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






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






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






9. 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






10. Minor C. Keith helped found the ...






11. 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






12. Today - Puerto Rico is ...






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






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






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






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






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






19. 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.






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






21. 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






22. 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






23. Spain's signature popular dishes






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






25. 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.






26. The Panamanian leader was captured - tried and imprisoned in the U.S..






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






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






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






30. Latin America is not a...






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






32. Bogota






33. 'Effective suffrage - no reelection' was the ironic slogan ...






34. 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






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






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






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






38. 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






39. 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






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






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






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






43. 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.






44. 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.






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. 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






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






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






49. 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






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