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Latin American Culture And Civilization

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1. 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






2. 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






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






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






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






6. 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






7. 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






8. 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






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






10. 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 ..






11. 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






12. 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






13. 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






14. Minor C. Keith helped found the ...






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






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






17. 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






18. Latin America is not a...






19. Since 1949 ______ has no army.






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






21. _____ is not a part of Latin America






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






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






24. 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.






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






26. Ten percent of Mexicans are ...






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






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






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






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






31. ...






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






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






34. 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






35. 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






36. 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






37. 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






38. 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






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






40. 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.






41. 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






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






43. Bogota






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






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






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






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






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






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