Mi amigo el Ché

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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...

n the last decades—and especially since the 1990s—there has been a noticeable reemergence of the nineteenth century in Southern Cone culture. Popular nineteenth-century figures (indios, gauchos, letrados, and cautivas) have reentered the national literary scene in Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay. Nineteenth-century heroes such as San Martín and Artigas are again the main protagonists of Southern Cone theater, film, and literature. Canonical nineteenth-century texts (La cautiva, Martín Fierro, Facundo) are being rewritten one more time in different artistic fields. Foundational...

Historia que parte de la primera Guerra Mundial hasta nuestros día, incluyendo, entre otros temas, la "guerra contra el terrorismo"; las luchas de independencia de Argelia, Kenia y Zimbabwe; la grandeza y decadencia del comunismo; el crecimiento de la Unión Europea, y problemas globales como la sobrepoblación, la epidemia del sida y el calentamiento global.