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Latin American Culture And Civilization

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1. 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






2. 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






3. 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






4. The United Fruit Company passionately combated guatemaletco reforms ....






5. 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






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






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






8. 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






9. 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






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






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






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






13. Since 1949 ______ has no army.






14. 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.






15. Cuba is in the ______ sea






16. Minor C. Keith helped found the ...






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






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






19. 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






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






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






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






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






24. 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






25. 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






26. 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






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






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






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






30. took office in 1857 - proud of his Zapotec Indian blood. Juarez promulgated the reform laws that established the suppression of the religious orders - the confiscation of church property and the obligation to register the birth - marriage and death.






31. America is not only...






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






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






34. 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.






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






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






37. 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 ..






38. This is the acutal leader of Cuba

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






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






41. 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






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






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






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






45. 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






46. 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






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






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






49. 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.






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