CaAdo del Cielo

Suggesting that better understanding of conflicts between Anglo and Latin America can come from the study of their contrasting popular fictions, the author compares the traditional attachment in Latin America to government by a strong man—a caudillo—to the diametrically opposed expansionist frontier ideology of the United States—the cowboy—who makes space safe for Anglo colonization.

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"Duró el ímpetu grande de la batalla cerca de cuatro horas y fue tan sangrienta y horrenda que parecía que la mar y el fuego fuese todo uno, viendo dentro de la misma agua arderse muchas galeras turquescas y dentro de la mar, que toda estaba roja de sangre, no había otra cosa que aljabas, turbantes, carcajes, flechas, arcos, rodelas, remos, cajas, valijas y otros muchos despojos de guerra, y sobre todo muchos cuerpos humanos, así cristianos como turcos". Así describía un anónimo soldado español las aguas del golfo de Lepanto en el mediodía del 7 de octubre de 1571, cuando la armada...