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Latin American Culture And Civilization

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






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






4. 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






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






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






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






8. 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.






9. 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






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






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






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






13. had three stages of the Mexican Revolution: the wartime period (1910-1920) - the organizing stage (1920-1940) and the conservative stage (1940-2000). It was an armed struggle that started in 1910 - with an uprising led by Francisco Madero against for






14. Bogota






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






16. Fray Antonio de Montesinos and Fray Bartolome de las Casas opposed the exerminio ..






17. Spain's signature popular dishes






18. 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






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






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






21. 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






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






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






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






25. 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






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






27. 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.






28. Since 1949 ______ has no army.






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






30. Latin America is not a...






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






32. 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.






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






34. This patriot nicarguense rose up against the U.S. occupation forces.






35. 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 ..






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






37. 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.






38. 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






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






40. 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






41. 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






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






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






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






45. 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


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






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






48. Cuba is in the ______ sea






49. _____ is not a part of Latin America






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