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Latin American Culture And Civilization

Subject : culture
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1. Fray Antonio de Montesinos and Fray Bartolome de las Casas opposed the exerminio ..






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






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






4. ...






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






6. Bogota






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






8. 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






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






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






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






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






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






14. 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






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






16. 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.






17. 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






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






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






20. 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






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. Today - Puerto Rico is ...






23. 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.






24. 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






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






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






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






29. This is the acutal leader of Cuba

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30. 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






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






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






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






34. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






40. 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






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






42. 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






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






44. Cuba is in the ______ sea






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






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






47. Ten percent of Mexicans are ...






48. 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






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






50. 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