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Latin American Culture And Civilization

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






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






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






4. 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






5. 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.






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






7. The Cuban leader was famous for his enemies throw at sharks.






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






9. 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






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






11. 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






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






13. 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.






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. 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






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






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






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






19. 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






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






21. Today - Puerto Rico is ...






22. 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






23. 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






24. 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.






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. 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






27. 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






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






29. 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.






30. 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






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






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






33. 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






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






35. 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






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






37. ...






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






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






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






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






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






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






44. 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






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






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






47. Bogota






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






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






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