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Latin American Culture And Civilization

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






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






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






4. 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






5. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






15. Since 1949 ______ has no army.






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






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






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






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






20. 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






21. 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


22. 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






23. This Dominican tyrant did kidnap a professor lantinoamericana civilization - secretly take Santodomingo - tortuarlo and murder.






24. 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






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






26. 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






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






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






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






30. ...






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






32. This is the acutal leader of Cuba


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






34. Minor C. Keith helped found the ...






35. 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






36. 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






37. 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.






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






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






40. Today - Puerto Rico is ...






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






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






43. 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.






44. Ten percent of Mexicans are ...






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






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






47. 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






48. 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






49. 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






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