Los reyes distantes/ The distant kings

"No existe una verdadera revolucion social sin la liberacion de la mujer," explica Sankara, dirigente central de la revolucion de 1983-87 en Burkina Faso. Los trabajadores y campesinos de ese pais de Africa occidental establecieron un gobierno popular revolucionario y comenzaron a combatir el hambre, el analfabetismo y el atraso economico impuestos por el dominio imperialista."There is no true social revolution without the liberation of women," explains the leader of the 1983-87 revolution in Burkina Faso. Workers and peasants in that West African country established a popular revolutionary...

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...

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En la Real Carcel de Corte, ubicada en el Palacio Virreinal, habia "un millon de presos. Unos blancos, otros prietos; unos medio vestidos, otros decentes; unos empelotados, otros enredados en sus pinchas"; en ella, "unos jugaban albures, otros saltaban con los grillos, otros cantaban, otros tejian medias y puntas, otros platicaban, y cada cual procuraba divertirse." Esto fue escrito por Jose Joaquin Fernandez de Lizardi en "El Periquillo Sarniento," pero que era una carcel en la parte final de la epoca colonial?, que funcion desempenaba en el proceso judicial?, cual era su jurisdiccion?,...