Enigmas de México

Which are the views of the Cuban history of those who did not see the revolutionary process? Based on strict survivorship, these are revealed as passionate gaps of different past aspects.

In 1839, French writer and activist Flora Tristán traveled to London to observe firsthand the capital of the first modern industrial nation in the world. In Promenades dans Londres, she recounts the four months she spent visiting both those areas of the city the tourists avoided (and a few places she could only enter disguised as a man)—workshops and brothels, working-class neighborhoods and factories, asylums and jails—as well as the haunts of the bourgeoisie: Parliament, the horse races at Ascot, and private clubs. Her resulting diatribe against the inequalities she witnessed, and the...

Este volumen sobre la Vitoria de los s. XV al XIX se asoma a la vida de las gentes que la poblaron desde la óptica de su relación con el espacio físico, la ciudad misma. Cada grupo refleja sus valores, actividades, necesidades e intereses, hasta derivar en esa ciudad capaz de asimilar varias a un tiempo: la que nacía de la 'obligación de aparentar' propia de la elite nobiliar; las gentes del comercio; los clérigos; los artesanos, cuyas actividades no hacían ya a las calles; los labradores, trabajadores en los campos circundantes a una ciudad para ellos mero dormitorio; los marginados,...

Describes the failure of Washington's war on drugs and the dangers of world wide economic dependency on the monetary gains of drug traffic.