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Latin American Culture And Civilization

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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






10. 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






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






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






14. 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 ..






15. 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






16. ...






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






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






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






20. Channel control passed to the Panamanians in ...






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






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






23. Today - Puerto Rico is ...






24. 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.






25. 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.






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






27. 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






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






29. 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.






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. _____ is not a part of Latin America






32. 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






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






34. Since 1949 ______ has no army.






35. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






41. ...






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






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






44. 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






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






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






47. Ten percent of Mexicans are ...






48. Minor C. Keith helped found the ...






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






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