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Latin American Culture And Civilization

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






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






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






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






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






6. 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.






7. Cuba is in the ______ sea






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






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






10. 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






11. 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.






12. 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






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






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






16. 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






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






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






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






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






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






22. 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






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






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






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






26. Latin America is not a...






27. 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.






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






29. 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.






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. 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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32. Minor C. Keith helped found the ...






33. Bogota






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






35. Today - Puerto Rico is ...






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






37. Ten percent of Mexicans are ...






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






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






40. 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






41. Spain's signature popular dishes






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






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






44. 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






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






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






47. 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






48. one of the more unscrupulous dictatorship was that of Nicaragua who won his country the peace of prison.






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