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Latin American Culture And Civilization
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1. a 'male whim' held by men in Puerto Rico is ..
Gran Colombia
Jose Marti
They Were the romance languages - latin --- not spanish - french italian
the guachafita
2. when Mexico became independent - the richest landowner was ..
U.S. intervention in the Dominican Republic
Columbia
Andres Bello
church
3. America is not only...
1917 Constitution
Advantages and disadvantages of the Commonwealth
an independent country
the U.S.
4. As Balzac - Goncourt - Zola and Dickens - Alberto Blest Gana is fundamentally ...
gaucho (cowboy)
realistic
William Walker
Latin American realism
5. 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
Tlatelolco
students
the guachafita
Rafael Leonidas Trujillo
6. 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
Antonio Lopez de Santa Ana
1917 Constitution
Markos Commandante
Americanism
7. Historically - before being republic - Panama was part of ...
United Fruit Company
Porfirio Diaz
Columbia
Trujillo
8. 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.
Balun Canan
Rafael Leonidas Trujillo
Santa Anna
democratic Caesarism
9. In this novel by Julio Cortazar - the reader can start at any chapter and continue with an order to your liking.
Jose Marti
Hopscotch
the guachafita
They Were the romance languages - latin --- not spanish - french italian
10. Mexico lost almost half of its territory to the U.S. Under the terms of ...
Treaty of Ancon
Panama's independence
Indians
Emiliano Zapata
11. basing his rule on this philosophy - Porfirio Diaz wanted to transform the country 'scientifically'
democratic Caesarism
Francisco Madero
Hatuey
thirty-three (33)
12. 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
Jacobo Arbenz
They Were the romance languages - latin --- not spanish - french italian
U.S. intervention in the Dominican Republic
Somoza family
13. This defeated Mexican General Jim Bowie - Davy Crockett and the Texans at the Alamo.
Borinquineers
Augusto Cesar Sandino
the bogotazo
Antonio Lopez de Santa Ana
14. 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
Ruben Dario
Hatuey
Augusto Sandino
Trujillo
15. Bogota
Athens of South America
the U.S.
1999
modernism
16. 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.
Andres Bello
Antonio Conselherio
church
Gran Colombia
17. 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
Advantages and disadvantages of the Commonwealth
Antonio Conselherio
Porfirio Diaz
Costa Rica
18. The chief of the Taino Indians on this island made a serious mistake when he Cristobol Colon ragalo to a gold ornament.
Puerto Rico
Jose Santos Zelaya
Andres Bello
Benito Juarez
19. 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
church
Manuel Antonio Noriega
Lazaro Cardenas
the U.S.
20. most Latin Americans are in favor of Puerto Rico as ...
Carlota
Jose Santos Zelaya
an independent country
Andres Bello
21. The name by which Puerto Ricans refer to themselves is ...
Americanism
Lazaro Cardenas
Borinquineers
the U.S.
22. 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.
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Markos Commandante
Timber
Augusto Sandino
23. 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
Ruben Dario
Caribbean
Lazaro Cardenas
Latin American realism
24. The Cuban leader was famous for his enemies throw at sharks.
Gerardo Machado Morales
Treaty of Ancon
Somoza family
Hopscotch
25. Diego Rivera - Jose Clemente Orozco and David Alfaro Siqueiros are famous ...
Benito Juarez
Tlatelolco
realistic
muralists
26. Jose Marti - Julian del Casal - Jose Asuncion Silva and Manuel Gutierrez Najera are initiators of ...
manufacturing
modernism
Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
the imposition of a control regime tyrannical dictatorship that fought for the revolution.
27. 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.
Emiliano Zapata
manufacturing
Raul Salinas de Gotari
They Were the romance languages - latin --- not spanish - french italian
28. 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.
choteo
The Mexican Revolution
Treaty of Ancon
Jacobo Arbenz
29. 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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30. This noble spirit is the greatest hero of Cubans of all political stripes.
The Mexican Revolution
Jose Marti
realistic
Antonio Lopez de Santa Ana
31. This Costa Rican received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1987 for his Central American peace plan.
The Mexican Revolution
Porfirio Diaz
Oscar Arias Sanchez
Jacobo Arbenz
32. 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
Mexican Revolution
Oscar Arias Sanchez
Santa Anna
Ruben Dario
33. Minor C. Keith helped found the ...
Lazaro Cardenas
Timber
Panama's independence
United Fruit Company
34. Rosario Castellanos - the new Indian school - leaves the reader see the world through Indian eyes of a seven year old girl in ...
Indians
Balun Canan
a commonwealth
Jose Marti
35. 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.
Timber
Athens of South America
Advantages and disadvantages of the Commonwealth
William Walker
36. Spain's signature popular dishes
church
Hopscotch
Timber
parella - tortilla
37. 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
modernism
Timber
Jose Marti
thirty-three (33)
38. It is said that the traits fundmentales ethos of the Cuban summary will ...
Latin American realism
church
choteo
the U.S.
39. 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
The outstanding features of the new Latin American novelar technique
Morazan
United Fruit Company
students
40. This is the acutal leader of Cuba
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41. 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
The Mexican Revolution
silver
realistic
Augusto Sandino
42. one of the more unscrupulous dictatorship was that of Nicaragua who won his country the peace of prison.
compare and contrast the Spanish American modernism with Brazilian modernism
1999
Jose Santos Zelaya
students
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 ...
church
The President
United Fruit Company
modernism
44. This cacique (tyrant) Cuban said 'If the Spanish can be in heaven - I'd rather go to hell'
Jose Marti
Francisco Madero
The Mexican Revolution
Hatuey
45. This is considered by some critics as the most eminent writer Brazilian and Latin American novelist best nineteenth LMIS
Gerardo Machado Morales
Causes of the Cuban Revolution
Gran Colombia
Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
46. Latin America is not so called because the first people spoke Latin.
Treaty of Ancon
They Were the romance languages - latin --- not spanish - french italian
silver
Lazaro Cardenas
47. the brightest Nicaraguan history has been the poet ...
muralists
Latin American realism
Ruben Dario
Somoza family
48. The main source of income for Puerto Rico now is ...
Honduras
manufacturing
Albizu Campos
continent
49. 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
Hatuey
Panama's independence
compare and contrast the Spanish American modernism with Brazilian modernism
Albizu Campos
50. This Dominican tyrant did kidnap a professor lantinoamericana civilization - secretly take Santodomingo - tortuarlo and murder.
Ruben Dario
1999
Raul Salinas de Gotari
Rafael Leonidas Trujillo