Piedras, barricadas y cacerolas

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Para acudir a la liberación de Chile, a mediados de 1815 José Miguel Carrera concibió la idea de viajar a Estados Unidos con el ánimo de conseguir apoyo para la causa emancipadora. Estando en ese país Carrera se entrevistó con el Presidente James Madison, y con numerosas otras personas, encumbradas o modestas, con quienes se encontró durante su estadía. Pese a su desconocimiento del idioma, de su absoluta carencia de fondos y de la política neutralista que había asumido la nación del norte, Carrera logró montar allí una expedición con varias naves en las que transportó una...

Matías Barrio y Mier, jurista y político, catedrático y abogado, diputado y decano de las Facultades de Derecho de las Universidades de Oviedo y Madrid, carlista de pro, piadoso ciudadano, cacique electoral e historiador tradicionalista, fue el claro exponente de una fracción de su generación isabelina. En ella, él mismo se fraguó, luego, durante la Restauración, como un templado adalid político y entusiasta abogado defensor del conservadurismo social, el integrismo religioso, el nacionalismo monárquico dinástico de Dios, Patria, Rey y Fueros, el providencialismo y el...