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Latin American Culture And Civilization

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1. Ten percent of Mexicans are ...






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






3. 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






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






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






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






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






8. This is the acutal leader of Cuba

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9. 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.






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






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






12. ...






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






14. Since 1949 ______ has no army.






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






16. 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






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






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






19. 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






20. 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






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






22. 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






23. 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.






24. 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






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






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






27. 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






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






29. 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






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






31. This novel of 1967 helped this Colombian mocho win the Nobel Prize for Literature.






32. 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






33. 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






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






35. 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.






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






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






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39. 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






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






41. Cuba is in the ______ sea






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






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






44. Minor C. Keith helped found the ...






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






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






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






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






49. 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.






50. _____ is not a part of Latin America