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Latin American Culture And Civilization

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1. 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






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






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






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






5. 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.






6. Minor C. Keith helped found the ...






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






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






9. 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






10. This is the acutal leader of Cuba

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






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






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






14. 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






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






16. 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






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






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






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






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






22. 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






23. the illiterate indigenous noble. In the south - continued the struggle for Land and Freedom << >> - << convinced that it is better to die standing than live on your knees >> - slogan adopted by the Republicans after the Civil War in Spain.






24. 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






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






26. Spain's signature popular dishes






27. 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






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






29. 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






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






31. Since 1949 ______ has no army.






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






33. _____ is not a part of Latin America






34. ...






35. 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.






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






37. America is not only...






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






39. 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






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






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






42. Bogota






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






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






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. Cuba is in the ______ sea






47. 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






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






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






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







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