¡Fidel Está Muerto!

En 1550 comenzó un espectáculo insólito para el mundo: por primera vez en la historia, un emperador paraliza la expansión de su imperio para suscitar un debate: ¿es conforme a la justicia la civilización y conversión de los indios del Nuevo Mundo? A la pregunta de Carlos V intentarán responder dos hombres excepcionales que, ante su consejo compuesto por quince expertos que se reúnen en el Colegio San Gregorio de Valladolid, expondrán sus respectivas tesis: Juan Ginés de Sepúlveda y Bartolomé de Las Casas. Esta Controversia constituye el primer gran debate sobre los derechos...

Ciudad Juarez lies just across the Rio Grande from El Paso, Texas. A once-thriving border town, it now resembles a failed state. Infamously known as the place where women disappear, its murder rate exceeds that of Baghdad. Last year 1,607 people were killed, a number that is on pace to increase in 2009. In Murder City, Charles Bowden, one of the few journalists who has spent extended periods of time in Juarez, has written an extraordinary account of what happens when a city disintegrates. Interweaving stories of its inhabitants, a raped beauty queen, a repentant hitman, a journalist fleeing...

Historia de Cuba I: Ramiro Guerra Fragmento de la obra INTRODUCCIÓN. LA HISTORIA Y LOS FACTORES HISTÓRICOS 1. Advertencia preliminar Las generalizaciones previas, si se establecen como dogmas absolutos, son peligrosas en toda investigación sinceramente enderezada a escudriñar la verdad; pero si solo se adelantan a título de simples hipótesis sujetas a ulteriores rectificaciones, aportan la inmensa ventaja de dirigir la observación, facilitar el análisis y allanar el camino a la inferencia. El investigador, colocado frente a enormes y confusas masas de hechos, no puede abordar la...

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