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Latin American Culture And Civilization
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1. The poems - stories and essays in this Argentine sequidores have had many in recent decades
Advantages and disadvantages of the Commonwealth
Jorge Luis Borges
realistic
Raul Castro (Fidel's brother)
2. a 'male whim' held by men in Puerto Rico is ..
students
Rafael Leonidas Trujillo
the guachafita
Francisco Madero
3. 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.
Trujillo
democratic Caesarism
1999
Morazan
4. most Latin Americans are in favor of Puerto Rico as ...
Latin American realism
an independent country
Honduras
choteo
5. 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.
The characteristics of violence in Columbia
realistic
Benito Juarez
Borinquineers
6. 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
Francisco Madero
muralists
Morazan
Americanism
7. Historically - before being republic - Panama was part of ...
Gran Colombia
Augusto Cesar Sandino
Porfirio Diaz
Columbia
8. 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
Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
Lazaro Cardenas
The characteristics of violence in Columbia
Augusto Cesar Sandino
9. This Dominican tyrant did kidnap a professor lantinoamericana civilization - secretly take Santodomingo - tortuarlo and murder.
Emiliano Zapata
Advantages and disadvantages of the Commonwealth
Rafael Leonidas Trujillo
United Fruit Company
10. Fray Antonio de Montesinos and Fray Bartolome de las Casas opposed the exerminio ..
Poetry
democratic Caesarism
Jorge Luis Borges
Indians
11. This defeated Mexican General Jim Bowie - Davy Crockett and the Texans at the Alamo.
Antonio Lopez de Santa Ana
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Treaty of Ancon
compare and contrast the Spanish American modernism with Brazilian modernism
12. The chief of the Taino Indians on this island made a serious mistake when he Cristobol Colon ragalo to a gold ornament.
U.S. intervention in the Dominican Republic
Mexican Revolution
Puerto Rico
El Salvador
13. Diego Rivera - Jose Clemente Orozco and David Alfaro Siqueiros are famous ...
an independent country
muralists
1917 Constitution
Jose Marti
14. one of the more unscrupulous dictatorship was that of Nicaragua who won his country the peace of prison.
Columbia
Athens of South America
Jose Santos Zelaya
the U.S.
15. In this novel by Julio Cortazar - the reader can start at any chapter and continue with an order to your liking.
choteo
illiterate (cant read or write)
Hopscotch
One Hundred Years of Solitude
16. This modernist Nicaraguan considered the most important poet in Castilian from the Golden Age
Caribbean
1917 Constitution
Latin American realism
Ruben Dario
17. 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
Santa Anna
church
Honduras
Jose Marti
18. 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
The Mexican Revolution
Antonio Conselherio
Platt Amendment
They Were the romance languages - latin --- not spanish - french italian
19. 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
Balun Canan
Panama's independence
Latin American realism
Emiliano Zapata
20. ...
Latin American realism
The outstanding features of the new Latin American novelar technique
El Salvador
Balun Canan
21. The United Fruit Company passionately combated guatemaletco reforms ....
Antonio Lopez de Santa Ana
Jacobo Arbenz
democratic Caesarism
Costa Rica
22. This Central American country is known derisively as the 'banana republic'
The characteristics of violence in Columbia
Raul Castro (Fidel's brother)
Honduras
compare and contrast the Spanish American modernism with Brazilian modernism
23. Rosario Castellanos - the new Indian school - leaves the reader see the world through Indian eyes of a seven year old girl in ...
Antonio Lopez de Santa Ana
Gerardo Machado Morales
Balun Canan
Lazaro Cardenas
24. From colonial times - Mexico has been the leading producer of ...
Jacobo Arbenz
Borinquineers
silver
The Mexican Revolution
25. the brightest Nicaraguan history has been the poet ...
Porfirio Diaz
parella - tortilla
Andres Bello
Ruben Dario
26. 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.
Shoe
They Were the romance languages - latin --- not spanish - french italian
modernism
Francisco Morazan
27. This patriot nicarguense rose up against the U.S. occupation forces.
Augusto Cesar Sandino
Rafael Leonidas Trujillo
Jose Santos Zelaya
Jacobo Arbenz
28. The Panamanian leader was captured - tried and imprisoned in the U.S..
Manuel Antonio Noriega
Jose Santos Zelaya
Carlota
1917 Constitution
29. 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
Latin American realism
Trujillo
Somoza family
modernism
30. Gabriela Mistral - Pablo Neruda and Octavio Paz have been honored with the Nobel Prize in Literature for his (s) ...
Causes of the Cuban Revolution
United Fruit Company
Poetry
Panama's independence
31. This president expropriated lands - nationalized oil and railways for the benefit of the dispossessed.
Augusto Sandino
Lazaro Cardenas
Puerto Rico
parella - tortilla
32. This religious preacher and leader of Canudos imporant figure in novels Euclydes da Cunha Brazilian and Peruvian Mario Vargas Llosa.
Balun Canan
Antonio Conselherio
The outstanding features of the new Latin American novelar technique
U.S. intervention in the Dominican Republic
33. 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
thirty-three (33)
Santa Anna
Somoza family
Shoe
34. America is not only...
the U.S.
muralists
Lazaro Cardenas
Antonio Conselherio
35. 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.
Augusto Cesar Sandino
Timber
Raul Salinas de Gotari
the bogotazo
36. 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.
William Walker
Advantages and disadvantages of the Commonwealth
Latin American realism
the bogotazo
37. 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
Antonio Conselherio
Francisco Madero
compare and contrast the Spanish American modernism with Brazilian modernism
Albizu Campos
38. The name by which Puerto Ricans refer to themselves is ...
Benito Juarez
Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
Columbia
Borinquineers
39. 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
Jose Marti
students
Emiliano Zapata
Tlatelolco
40. This noble Indian was convinced that 'it is better to die on your feet than live on your knees'
U.S. intervention in the Dominican Republic
The outstanding features of the new Latin American novelar technique
Emiliano Zapata
1917 Constitution
41. As Balzac - Goncourt - Zola and Dickens - Alberto Blest Gana is fundamentally ...
Jose Marti
realistic
modernism
Emiliano Zapata
42. when Mexico became independent - the richest landowner was ..
Jacobo Arbenz
students
church
continent
43. The Cuban leader was famous for his enemies throw at sharks.
Ruben Dario
Porfirio Diaz
Augusto Cesar Sandino
Gerardo Machado Morales
44. 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
Antonio Conselherio
Markos Commandante
Panama's independence
Tlatelolco
45. The Underdogs by Mariano Azuela - is one of the best novels ...
The Mexican Revolution
Markos Commandante
Tlatelolco
the imposition of a control regime tyrannical dictatorship that fought for the revolution.
46. It is said that the traits fundmentales ethos of the Cuban summary will ...
choteo
Markos Commandante
Costa Rica
Augusto Sandino
47. Jose Marti - Julian del Casal - Jose Asuncion Silva and Manuel Gutierrez Najera are initiators of ...
Tlatelolco
Antonio Conselherio
Indians
modernism
48. 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 ..
Emiliano Zapata
students
United Fruit Company
1917 Constitution
49. The Honduran patriot is considered 'father of the nation'
Honduras
Advantages and disadvantages of the Commonwealth
Columbia
Francisco Morazan
50. Since 1949 ______ has no army.
Augusto Cesar Sandino
Andres Bello
Costa Rica
Jose Marti