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Latin American Culture And Civilization

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






2. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






8. 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






9. 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






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






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






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






14. 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.






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






16. Bogota






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






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






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






20. 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






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






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






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






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






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






26. 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






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






28. Ten percent of Mexicans are ...






29. ...






30. 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






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






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






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






34. 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






35. 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






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






37. 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






38. 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






39. ...






40. 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






41. 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.






42. 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.






43. 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






44. Spain's signature popular dishes






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






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






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






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






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






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