Mercedes Sanz-Bachiller

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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Jacques Soustelle considera necesario situar a los aztecas dentro de un marco geografico e historico para su comprension cabal. Hace una pormenorizada descripcion de la ciudad (calles, templos y monumentos), del individuo y de las instituciones (el soberano y su consejo, el matrimonio, el sacerdocio, la propiedad, los tribunales, los funcionarios, comerciantes, campesinos, etc), ademas de destacar datos precisos como para estimar el "costo de la vida" en Tenochtitlan.

Cualquier curioso de la historia cree saber qué significa la expresión «Plomos del Sacromonte»: algo así como el conjunto de láminas de ese metal con extraños dibujos e inscripciones latinas y árabes encontradas en la colina de Valparaíso, luego Sacromonte, extramuros de la ciudad de Granada, en el período 1595-1599; incluyéndose en el conjunto, por su íntima y evidente imbricación, los restos humanos que las acompañaban, y, también, el hallazgo habido en la Torre Turpiana, en el centro del núcleo urbano de Granada, en 1588, siempre asociado como prólogo. Es la opción...