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Latin American Culture And Civilization

Subject : culture
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1. Minor C. Keith helped found the ...






2. 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






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






4. Spain's signature popular dishes






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






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






7. Ten percent of Mexicans are ...






8. 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






9. 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






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






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






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






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






14. 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






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






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






17. 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.






18. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






25. Cuba is in the ______ sea






26. 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






27. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






36. 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






37. _____ is not a part of Latin America






38. 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






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






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






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






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






43. Latin America is not a...






44. In his speech to poetry - Bello recommends return to nature and leave the civilized Europe << >> - << light region misery i>. The Venezuelan humanist sentiments expressed in a neoclassical romantic full of clues.






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






46. 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.






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






48. 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






49. Bogota






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