Marco Rubio y la hora de los hispanos

¿Cómo se explica el brexit? Un breve recorrido sobre las equivocadas pretensiones aislacionistas del Reino Unido? El resultado del brexit y las recientes elecciones parlamentarias son el reflejo de la delicada situación sociopolítica que vive actualmente Reino Unido. La gran tragedia británica no solo conlleva una gran incertidumbre respecto a su futuro sino que manifiesta el choque generacional que existe entre sus votantes. Ameno y esclarecedor, este ensayo busca explicar las causas y los desafíos de otro de los acontecimientos más surrealistas de estos tiempos atribulados.

"What is a face, really? Its own photo? Its make-up? Or is it a face as painted by such or such painter? That which is in front? Inside? Behind? And the rest? Doesn't everyone look at himself in his own particular way?" With these words, Pablo Picasso described the revolutionary methods of painting and artistic perspective with which he challenged the ways people and the world were defined. His life was a similarly complex prism of people, places, and ideologies that spanned most of the twentieth century. Acclaimed scholar Mary Ann Caws provides in Pablo Picasso a fresh and concise...

In the year I was born and in Africa in 1984, Mobutu already had more than USD $ 15 billion in his personal fortune derived from the trafficking of Congo's natural resources, which he renamed Zaire (the name of his beloved mother). ). That same year, the gross domestic product of France was USD 532,339 million, with a growth of USD $ 30,160 million compared to the previous year, 1983. Mobutu Sese Seko, during his 32 years of power, became the most powerful and dangerous fool in the world, and above all, the richest. Being benevolent in the estimates and taking into account some other...

Julio Ligorría analiza y proyecta en Guatemala frente al espejo a un país multilingüe y pluricultural, regido por una constitución que lo enmarca en el modelo republicano, de estructura económica industrial, que sobrevivió a la descomposición social de un conflicto interno de 36 años caracterizado por una ubicación geoestratégica privilegiada, en tanto colinda con NAFTA y dista tres horas de vuelo de Estados Unidos. Ligorría señala que la movilidad humana es apresurada, mientras que la socioeconómica es sumamente lenta. En Guatemala frente al espejo, Julio Ligorría da su visión ...

The startling true history of how one extraordinary man from a remote corner of the world created an empire that led the world into the modern age. The Mongol army led by Genghis Khan subjugated more land and people in twenty-five years than the Romans did in four hundred. In nearly every country the Mongols conquered, they brought an unprecedented rise in cultural communication, expanded trade, and a blossoming of civilization. Vastly more progressive than his European or Asian counterparts, Genghis Khan abolished torture, granted universal religious freedom, and smashed feudal systems of...