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Latin American Culture And Civilization

Subject : culture
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1. Today - Puerto Rico is ...






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






3. 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






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






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






6. Cuba is in the ______ sea






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






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






9. ...






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






11. 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.






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






13. This is the acutal leader of Cuba

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






15. The brother of a president has been accused of being the mastermind in murder and having received bribes of millions of dollars from drug traffickers.






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






17. This noble Indian was convinced that 'it is better to die on your feet than live on your knees'






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






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






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






21. America is not only...






22. Ten percent of Mexicans are ...






23. 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.






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






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






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






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






28. 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






29. 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






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






31. 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.






32. 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






33. 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.






34. 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






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






36. 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






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






38. 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






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






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






41. Since 1949 ______ has no army.






42. Spain's signature popular dishes






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






44. 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 ..






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






46. 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






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






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






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






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