Breve historia contemporánea de Guatemala

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Se suele invocar la idea de libertad para justificar la acción política. Presidentes estadounidenses tan dispares como Woodrow Wilson, Franklin D. Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy, Ronald Reagan y George W. Bush han cimentado sus políticas en alguna variante del noble ideal de la libertad. Sin embargo, en la práctica, los proyectos suelen chocar con las circunstancias específicas que se dan sobre el terreno. Tal como prueban Abu Ghraib o Guantánamo, la búsqueda de la libertad puede conducir a la violencia y la represión más severas, y socavan nuestra fe en las teorías universales del...

Si bien es indudable que Grecia ha constituido siempre un punto de referencia ineludible en todos los campos de nuestra cultura, también lo es que este predominio se ha visto acompañado en numerosas ocasiones por tópicos, purismos o ignorancias que han tergiversado de manera importante su verdadera imagen. Apoyada en una estructura sumamente pedagógica que articula cada etapa en cuatro apartados -panorama general, problemas fundamentales, fuentes y bibliografía básica-, esta INTRODUCCIÓN A LA GRECIA ANTIGUA constituye, pese a las evidentes e insoslayables dificultades que presenta la...

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