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Latin American Culture And Civilization

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1. 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.






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






3. 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






4. 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






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






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






7. 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






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






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






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






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






12. Bogota






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






14. 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.






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






16. 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






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






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






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






20. 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.






21. _____ is not a part of Latin America






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






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






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






25. 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






26. 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






27. 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.






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






29. Ten percent of Mexicans are ...






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






31. Latin America is not a...






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






42. 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






43. 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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44. 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






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






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






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






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






49. 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






50. America is not only...