Copistas e iluminadores

Durante el ano de 1860 se prolongo el estado de guerra entre liberales y conservadores, que recurrian a cualquier medio para aportar recursos a su causa. Mas de un ano de conflicto armado mantenia a los negocios en situacion critica, mientras inversionistas afortunados conseguian grandes beneficios de las operaciones de prestamos, incautaciones y aprovisionamiento de ambos gobiernos en pugna. Esta situacion se refleja en los protocolos notariales, en los que la diversidad de operaciones financieras y la intranquilidad de los propietarios proporcionan un fiel retrato de la situacion. Esta guia ...

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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.