Repairman Jack

Jesús Manuel Fernandez era de Ciaño (el carbayo) cerca de Sama de Langreo en el pais Asturiano. Era el mayor de una fratria de seis niños cuando murió su madre . Tenia trece años cuando dudó dejar la escuela para trabajar en las minas. No suportó esa vida muy dura, de miseria, de hambre y pronto se invertió en la lucha sindical y politica. Huyó de España durante la dictadura de Manuel Primo de Rivera. Regresó a España al advenimiento de la Republica, en Madrid y después en Asturias con su mujer (una francesa del pais basco). Participó a la Revolución obrera de Asturias en año...

"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...

Nadia sólo tiene ocho años pero se le ha acabado la infancia. Una bomba ha destruido su casa y con ella su vida, su rostro y la situación económica acomodada en la que vivía. Una niña que a los diez años decide cambiar el velo blanco por el turbante, adoptar la identidad de su hermano muerto y trabajar sin descanso por la supervivencia de los suyos.

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...