Historia natural y moral de las Indias

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...

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Premio Internacional Ateneo Jovellanos de Investigación Histórica 2010. Santiago de Cuba, 26 de julio de 1953. Un centenar de hombres asalta el Cuartel Moncada, segunda fortaleza del país. El líder rebelde es un jovencísimo Fidel Castro, que huye tras el fracaso. Aislado en las montañas cercanas, Castro pide ayuda y las fuerzas vivas del país se movilizan para salvarle. Al frente de las gestiones aparece Enrique Pérez Serantes, arzobispo de Santiago y primado de la Iglesia cubana, que arriesga su vida para que los supervivientes no sean fusilados. Santiago de Cuba, 1 de enero de 1959. ...