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Somos conscientes en estas páginas de que la historiografía centroamericana todavía tiene problemas con la historia política. No hablemos el que representan los mitos. Esa historia política edificante, que ha supeditado la verdad a la ejemplaridad, con el objeto de imponer un tipo de conducta social. Pero, el estudio de la historia centroamericana tiene, además, grandes lagunas. Hasta ahora en la región ha prevalecido una interpretación que se centra en un criterio de con-tinuum político: independencia -república - reforma liberal - democracia, y que tiene como particularidad...

Dos eventos trágicos, la masacre de Los Angeles de 1871 y el abonimable tráfico de las pequeñas esclavas, que resumen la relación difícil entre América y China en los años 1820 y 1945. Un libro de ingeniosa e inteligente crítica que deja al descubierto verdades ocultas con un estilo simple y eficaz. PUBLISHER: TEKTIME

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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...