Sociedad, economía y política del México actual

Panorama completo de la historia guatemalteca a partir de la Conquista española y, sobre todo, de la Independencia, en 1821, hasta la actualidad. Si bien se hace hincapié en los procesos políticos, no se descuida lo social, lo económico y lo cultural.

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...

Una hermosa mujer, Alicia, habla sola, con gestos de enfado, sobre una fosa común veinte años después del final de la Guerra Civil. Está ajustando cuentas con su pasado. Rememora que fue espía y lo sigue siendo, una Mata Hari extraída de la burguesía rural del sur de Jaén, un territorio convertido en frontera inexpugnable para el bando nacional. Es amante de dos hombres a la vez, el comandante anarquista José Poblador,."Pancho Villa", de violenta y desquiciada personalidad, que está organizando la retaguardia republicana, y del delegado de Orden Público de Granada, Mariano Pelayo,...

But other emperors, such as Tiberius, Caligula, and Nero, infamously used their power to indulge vice and harm others. Ever since their publication, Suetonius' imperial biographies have appealed to readers, both because of their sensational stories and the larger questions of power they raise. They spawned many sequels in antiquity (as well as more recent works like Robert Graves's famed, I, Claudius). While a number of good English translations are in print, reading Lives of the Caesar from cover to cover can be daunting, so many details are included. Also general readers, including...