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Latin American Culture And Civilization

Subject : culture
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1. Today - Puerto Rico is ...






2. 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






3. 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.






4. 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






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






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






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






8. 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






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






10. 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






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






12. This is the acutal leader of Cuba


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






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






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






16. 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






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






18. Ten percent of Mexicans are ...






19. Cuba is in the ______ sea






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






21. 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






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






23. Spain's signature popular dishes






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






25. Bogota






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. 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






28. 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






29. This president expropriated lands - nationalized oil and railways for the benefit of the dispossessed.






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






31. 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






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






33. 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.






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






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






36. ...






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






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






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






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






41. _____ is not a part of Latin America






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






43. 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






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






45. 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






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






47. 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






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






49. 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






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