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Latin American Culture And Civilization

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1. 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.






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






3. 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 ..






4. Cuba is in the ______ sea






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






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






7. 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






8. Constitution noted the historic legal standards of the Revolution. The most important articles state that (a) is prohibited from the Church acquires - owns or manages real estate - (b) soil and subsoil belong to the State - (c) is right to organize l






9. America is not only...






10. 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.






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






12. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






21. 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






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






23. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






30. Although geographically belongs to Central Panama - not always associated this country with the region politically - perhaps because for centuries has been linked to South America. Since Colombia became independent from Spain in 1821 - Panama was a

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






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






33. 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






34. 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






35. ...






36. 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.






37. 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






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






39. 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.






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






41. 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






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






43. _____ is not a part of Latin America






44. This is the acutal leader of Cuba

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






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






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






48. Since 1949 ______ has no army.






49. Bogota






50. 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






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