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Culture 11-20
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05/27/2005

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Pablo Neruda
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From Chile, poet, won the “Primero Nobel de Literatura”, wrote “Oda a la manzana”(the poem about apples),early 1900s
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Nicolás Guillén
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From Cuba, early 1900s, black/white (mulato), dedicated life to poetry, wrote “Sensemaya-Canto para matar a una culebra”, wrote about experiences of African-Cuban life during racial discrimination of the black and whites
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Fidel Castro/Guantánamo Bay
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From Cuba, mid 1900s, became leader in 1959,caused friction between United States and Cuba, had a military base near Guantanamo Bay
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Ciro Alegría
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From Peru, early 1900s, wrote “Los Rivales y el Juez”
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las Islas Galápagos
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near Ecuador, there is a “Centro de Investigacion Charles Darwin”-famous, have giant turtles on the island
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el ceviche
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In Peru, special food that is prepared in Peru and Ecuador, fish with lemon on it
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los incas/Cuzco/Machu Picchu
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In Peru and Ecuador
Cuenca-pretty city, has colonial-spanish architecture, some archiological sites of “los incas”
Machu Picchu-center of “los incas”
Cuzco-capital of “los incas”
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Rosaura Rodríguez
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From Colombia, write that write about latin americans-women growing up and their problems in society, wrote “Relato de una vida equivocada-trozo”
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Cartagena de las Indias
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In Colombia, founded in 1533 on the coast of the carribean, most important port of Spain in the new world
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Gabriel García Márquez
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From Colombia, won the Nobel Prize, write fantasies and compositions of conflicts that Americans have in general
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