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Latin American Culture And Civilization

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






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






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






4. 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






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






6. Latin America is not a...






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






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






9. 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






10. 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






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






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






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






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






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






16. 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 ..






17. Bogota






18. _____ is not a part of Latin America






19. 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.






20. ...






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






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






24. America is not only...






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






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






27. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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. Cuba is in the ______ sea






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






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






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






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






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






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






43. the brightest Nicaraguan history has been the poet ...






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






45. 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.






46. Today - Puerto Rico is ...






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






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






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






50. 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