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Latin American Culture And Civilization

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1. Addition to Castilian - many language families exist in the country?






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






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






4. 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






5. Today - Puerto Rico is ...






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






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






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






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






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






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






12. 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






13. Cuba is in the ______ sea






14. Since 1949 ______ has no army.






15. From colonial times - Mexico has been the leading producer of ...






16. _____ is not a part of Latin America






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






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






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






20. 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






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






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






23. 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.






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






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 Honduran patriot is considered 'father of the nation'






27. Minor C. Keith helped found the ...






28. 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






29. 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






30. 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.






31. 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






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






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






34. America is not only...






35. 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






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






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






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






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






40. 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.






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






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






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






44. 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.






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






46. 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 ..






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






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






50. 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