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Latin American Culture And Civilization

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






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






3. 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.






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






5. 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.






6. 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






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






8. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






17. 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






18. 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






19. 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






20. ...






21. The United Fruit Company passionately combated guatemaletco reforms ....






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






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






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






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






26. 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.






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






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






29. 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






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






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






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






33. 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






34. America is not only...






35. 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.






36. 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.






37. 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






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






39. 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






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






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






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






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






44. 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






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






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






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






48. 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 ..






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






50. Since 1949 ______ has no army.