Armeros

Sin utopía no hay progreso, y el europeísmo es la utopía y el ideal de una Europa unida que en tiempos pretéritos inspiró tanto a intelectuales como a políticos, y que hoy se ha encarnado en la Unión Europea. Todos los europeos nos identificamos profundamente con nuestras naciones y tradiciones. Pero estamos urgidos a fortalecer nuestro tronco común y extender nues..

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...

The Improbable Conquest offers translations of a series of little-known letters from the chaotic Spanish conquest of the Río de la Plata region, uncovering a rich and understudied historical resource. These letters were written by a wide variety of individuals, including clergy, military officers, and the region’s first governor, Pedro de Mendoza. There is also an exceptional contribution from Isabel de Guevara, one of the few women involved in the conquest to have recorded her experiences. Writing about the conditions of settlements and expeditions, these individuals vividly expose the...

La juventud vasca ha expresado sus aspiraciones y reivindicaciones políticas y sociales de formas múltiples y diversas, padeciendo una reacción represiva exacerbada y arbitraria por parte del Estado: criminalización de sus actividades públicas, montajes policiales, detenciones masivas, tortura, procesos judiciales inquisitoriales, políticas carcelarias criminales… A su vez, como si de una cadena se tratase, la reacción estatal ha originado la activación de miles de personas, principalmente de madres y padres, en defensa de unos derechos que consideran elementales y que ven...