Artes, ciencias y letras en la América colonial

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Una soleada mañana de enero de 1833, por uno de los canales al sur de la Tierra del Fuego un buque inglés navega junto a un bote más pequeño. Los nativos de la zona, mediante gritos y humo, rápidamente se comunican entre sí la novedad y comienzan a aparecer decenas de canoas con cientos de ellos para observar la extraña aparición. Curiosos y amigables la mayoría, algo agresivos otros, observan el bote más pequeño que acerca a la orilla a tres fueguinos (dos varones y una mujer) que regresan a su tierra luego de haber pasado casi un año en Londres. Para sorpresa de los compatriotas ...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute...

Exclusive interviews with key political figures in Mexico—former presidents Zedillo and Salinas, and guerrilla leader Marcos—are the basis of this study that untangles the complex influences that have shaped Mexico over the past 20 years. From the Zapatistas to electoral fraud, this well-researched history accounts for many parts of Mexican politics and economy that have remained obscured by official silence. Beyond recurring catastrophes, however, this journalist finds the seed of a modern democracy in Vicente Fox's presidency, one which the author analyzes in a prologue added for this...