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Latin American Culture And Civilization

Subject : culture
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1. 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






2. 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 ..






3. Latin America is not a...






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






5. 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






6. Ten percent of Mexicans are ...






7. 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






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






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






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






11. 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






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






13. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






21. 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.






22. Minor C. Keith helped found the ...






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






24. 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






25. 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.






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






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






28. 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






29. Since 1949 ______ has no army.






30. 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






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






32. ...






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






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






35. 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






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






37. ...






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






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






40. 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.






41. Cuba is in the ______ sea






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






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






44. 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






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






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






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






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






49. 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






50. 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.