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Latin American Culture And Civilization

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1. 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






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






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






4. 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






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






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






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






8. Ten percent of Mexicans are ...






9. 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






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






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






12. 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.






13. 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






14. 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.






15. 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 ..






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






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






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






19. 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.






20. Latin America is not a...






21. 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






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






23. This is the acutal leader of Cuba

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






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






26. 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






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






29. 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






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






31. 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






32. 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






33. Since 1949 ______ has no army.






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






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






36. Today - Puerto Rico is ...






37. 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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38. Minor C. Keith helped found the ...






39. Cuba is in the ______ sea






40. The Panamanian leader was captured - tried and imprisoned in the U.S..






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






42. Spain's signature popular dishes






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






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






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






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






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






48. 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.






49. 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






50. 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







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