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Latin American Culture And Civilization

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






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






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






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






5. 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






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






7. 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






8. 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






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






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






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






12. most significantly the turbulent period was the abolition of slavery - proclaimed earlier than most of the Americas. In these circumstances - Spain tried to reconquer the country - but the Mexican forces led by General Spanish imperialists foiled the






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






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






15. 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






16. Channel control passed to the Panamanians in ...






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






18. 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






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






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






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






22. America is not only...






23. 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 ..






24. 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






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






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






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






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






29. Latin America is not a...






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






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






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






33. Spain's signature popular dishes






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






35. Minor C. Keith helped found the ...






36. 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






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






38. 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






39. 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.






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






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






42. 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






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






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






45. 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.






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






47. Bogota






48. 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






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






50. 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






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