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Latin American Culture And Civilization

Subject : culture
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1. 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






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






3. 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






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






5. This is the acutal leader of Cuba

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






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






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






10. 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.






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






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






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






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






15. ...






16. 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






17. Since 1949 ______ has no army.






18. 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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19. 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






20. ...






21. 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.






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






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






24. 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






25. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






32. Cuba is in the ______ sea






33. Minor C. Keith helped found the ...






34. Ten percent of Mexicans are ...






35. Bogota






36. 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






37. 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






38. 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.






39. 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






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






41. 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.






42. 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






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






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






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






46. Latin America is not a...






47. America is not only...






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






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






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