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Latin American Culture And Civilization

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1. Spain's signature popular dishes






2. 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






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4. 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






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






6. Today - Puerto Rico is ...






7. 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






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






9. Cuba is in the ______ sea






10. Intellectuals and university students - allied with some army sergeants - deposed tyrant. One of these - Fulgencio Batista - stenographer of Staff - gave the final blow to the dictatorship. Opened in period that became the absolute ruler or the emine






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






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






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






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






15. 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






16. 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






17. This Costa Rican received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1987 for his Central American peace plan.






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






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






20. This is the acutal leader of Cuba

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






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






23. 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






24. Since 1949 ______ has no army.






25. 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






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






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






28. America is not only...






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






30. 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






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






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






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






34. 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.






35. Ten percent of Mexicans are ...






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






37. 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.






38. 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






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






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






41. most Latin Americans are in favor of Puerto Rico as ...






42. This defeated Mexican General Jim Bowie - Davy Crockett and the Texans at the Alamo.






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






44. The chief of the Taino Indians on this island made a serious mistake when he Cristobol Colon ragalo to a gold ornament.






45. 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






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






47. Latin America is not a...






48. 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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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






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







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