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Latin American Culture And Civilization

Subject : culture
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1. 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






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






3. 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.






4. 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.






5. _____ is not a part of Latin America






6. America is not only...






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






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






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






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






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






12. 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






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






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






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






16. ...






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






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






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






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






21. 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






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






23. Spain's signature popular dishes






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






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






26. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






32. Bogota






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






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






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






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






37. 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






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






39. Ten percent of Mexicans are ...






40. 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.






41. 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.






42. 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






43. 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






44. 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






45. 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






46. ...






47. Cuba is in the ______ sea






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






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






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