Vida y temperamento: 1877-1920

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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...

Presidente de la República que promulgó las liberales Leyes de Reforma, Juárez defendió la soberanía nacional ante la invasión extranjera y promovió el orden constitucional republicano. Se presenta aquí una semblanza del hombre y una selección de su correspondencia política.

Larry Mullins tenía razones más que justificadas para escribir su libro Historia de los escritos de Urantia. Existía una necesidad imperiosa, por un lado, de reordenar los acontecimientos y circunstancias que llevaron a la aparición de estos escritos dentro de un marco de objetividad histórica y, por otro, de abordar las anomalías existentes en la interpretación oficialista respecto a sus orígenes.