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Latin American Culture And Civilization

Subject : culture
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1. 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






2. Bogota






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






4. 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






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






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






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






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






9. Since 1949 ______ has no army.






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






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






12. 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.






13. America is not only...






14. 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.






15. ...






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






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






18. 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






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






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






21. 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






22. 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.






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






24. 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






25. 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.






26. 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






27. 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.






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






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






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






31. Latin America is not a...






32. Spain's signature popular dishes






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






34. Ten percent of Mexicans are ...






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






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






37. attempts were made to end the chaos by a Conservative government - inspired by Generalissimo Franco's Falange. That government failed and was deposed by General Gustavo Rojas Pinilla. To maintain his dictatorship with the consent of the United States






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






39. 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






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






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






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






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






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






45. 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.






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






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






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






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






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