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Latin American Culture And Civilization

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






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






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






4. 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 ..






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






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






7. 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






8. Since 1949 ______ has no army.






9. Spain's signature popular dishes






10. ...






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






12. 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






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






14. 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






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






16. 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.






17. 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






18. Buenaventura Baez - a former puppet Santana - another traitor - since the presidency conspired to grant special rights and naval bases to the United States - prior to its full annexation. President Ulysses S. Grant enthusiastically supported the anne






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






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






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






22. 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






23. 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






24. 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






25. 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.






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






27. Ten percent of Mexicans are ...






28. _____ is not a part of Latin America






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






30. Minor C. Keith helped found the ...






31. ...






32. 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






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






34. This is the acutal leader of Cuba


35. 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.






36. 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






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






38. 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






39. Latin America is not a...






40. 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






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






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






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






44. America is not only...






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






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






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






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






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






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