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Latin American Culture And Civilization

Subject : culture
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1. Fausto - Santos Vega and Martin Fierro - are the poetic genre ...






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






10. Today - Puerto Rico is ...






11. 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.






12. 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.






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






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






15. Cuba is in the ______ sea






16. 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.






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






18. 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.






19. 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






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






21. 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






22. 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






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






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






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






28. Spain's signature popular dishes






29. 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






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






31. 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






32. This is the acutal leader of Cuba

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33. administrative integrity and dynamism he conquered much popularity. Conducted more work for the benefit of the dispossessed classes than their predecessors. Implemented the Constitution of 1917 - land was expropriated and distributed forty-five milli






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






35. 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.






36. Ten percent of Mexicans are ...






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






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






39. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






48. 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






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






50. 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