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Latin American Culture And Civilization

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






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






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






5. ...






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






7. America is not only...






8. 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






9. 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






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






11. _____ is not a part of Latin America






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






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






14. 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.






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






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






17. 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






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






19. Addition to Castilian - many language families exist in the country?






20. 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.






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






22. 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






23. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






31. Bogota






32. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






39. 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






40. 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






41. This is the acutal leader of Cuba


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






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






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






45. 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






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






47. 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.






48. 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 ..






49. Since 1949 ______ has no army.






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