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Latin American Culture And Civilization

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






2. 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






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






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






5. Spain's signature popular dishes






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






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






8. 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.






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






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






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






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






13. 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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14. 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.






15. _____ is not a part of Latin America






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






17. 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






18. 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






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






20. 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






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






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






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






24. 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.






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






26. Today - Puerto Rico is ...






27. Buenaventura Baez - a former puppet Santana - another traitor - since the presidency conspired to grant special rights and naval bases to the United States - prior to its full annexation. President Ulysses S. Grant enthusiastically supported the anne






28. 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






29. 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 ..






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






31. 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






32. 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






33. Cuba is in the ______ sea






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






35. 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






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






37. 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






38. Latin America is not a...






39. This is the acutal leader of Cuba

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






41. Since 1949 ______ has no army.






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






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






44. Ten percent of Mexicans are ...






45. 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






46. 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






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






48. 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.






49. Minor C. Keith helped found the ...






50. 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