Traducir el Horror

This book is a landmark in Mexican rural history. Activists and professional historians have long argued that the nineteenth-century privatization of indigenous communal lands was the original sin that laid the ground for the agrarian strife of the twentieth century. Many also claimed that this privatization drove the political mobilizations of indigenous peasants even before the Revolution. Nevertheless, very few historians have actually studied the process through which indigenous lands were privatized, and their findings have been published mostly as tantalizing but sketchy articles. In...

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Para promover la devoción a las ánimas y popularizar en Europa los dogmas del purgatorio, las indulgencias y los sufragios como medio de salvación, desde el siglo XV hasta el XVII la iglesia tridentina y postridentina se apoyó en unos sencillos relatos, anónimos en su mayoría, denominados ejemplos e exempla.

Las Damas de Blanco surgieron durante la celebración del Día de la Madre del año 2003, cuando un grupo de mujeres debió asumir las consecuencias de la detención arbitraria de sus familiares. El grupo se formó de manera espontánea; hoy cuenta con la participación de mujeres provenientes de todo el país, que profesan diversos credos religiosos y tienen distintas posiciones políticas, pero comparten una causa común: lograr la libertad inmediata de sus familiares, injustamente detenidos durante el período de mayor represión que Cuba haya conocido en los últimos años. A pesar de no...