Juárez y su México

La segunda parte de Hacia el M xico moderno completa el estupendo fresco hist rico de Ralph Roeder acerca de Porfirio D az y la etapa de nuestro pa s en que fue presidente con totales atribuciones dictatoriales. el trabajo de investigaci n de Roeder est levantado sobre la base de una riqueza documental exhaustiva. S lo as pudo configurar esta visi n de M xico en la ltima fase del siglo XIX e inicios del siglo XX.

Los jeroglíficos egipcios que, a diferencia del alfabeto occidental, denotan visualmente un concepto básico del pensamiento, fueron una invención fundamental para el desarrollo de una sociedad compleja. Su estudio y conocimiento nos aportan más información que los restos arqueológicos, porque nos revelan las prioridades, las preocupaciones y las creencias de los habitantes del Antiguo Egipto. El profesor Kemp, autor del libro esencial El Antiguo Egipto, Anatomía de una civilización (Crítica, 1996) nos facilita aquí, en 100 jeroglíficos, la llave maestra para asistir a la vida...

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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Alberto Müller was born in Havana, Cuba, on May 23, 1939.He studied at the Columbus School (first education);Institute of Havana (admission);Belén & Escolapios de Guanabacoa(secondary education);Law at the University of Havana;Bachelor of Arts at St. Thomas University, Miami, Master in International Relations at FIU, Miami. In February 1960, he organized a student demonstration repudiating the visit to Cuba of Anastas Mikoyán, the Soviet leader who led the massacre of the Hungarian people in 1956.He organized in Miami, together with other students, he Student Revolutionary Directory, an...