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Latin American Culture And Civilization

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






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






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






4. ...






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






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






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






9. 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






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






11. ...






12. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






19. Cuba is in the ______ sea






20. 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






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






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






23. Ten percent of Mexicans are ...






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






25. 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






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






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






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






29. 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.






30. America is not only...






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






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






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






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






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






36. 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






37. 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






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






39. 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






40. Spain's signature popular dishes






41. 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.






42. 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 ..






43. Latin America is not a...






44. _____ is not a part of Latin America






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. In his 'Address to the poetry' - this master of Simon Bolivar was one of the first to make explicit clearly longing for intellectual independence.






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






48. 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






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






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