América

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El Zarco y Los bandidos de Río Frío en el siglo xix, los narcocorridos y el tortilla western de los hermanos Almada en el XX, y más recientemente la literatura, la plástica y la cinematografía de creadores como Élmer Mendoza, Luis Estrada y Teresa Margolles develan el sentido y la función social del crimen en México. A diferencia de autores como Fuentes, Revueltas y Paz, para quienes la violencia y lo terrible expresan cierta esencia de lo mexicano, Héctor Domínguez Ruvalcaba sostiene que la criminalidad ha de interpretarse a partir de la incompetencia del Estado y como forma de...

Pedro José Guiteras sacó a la luz hechos olvidados, que sus antecesores creyeron infecundos o sobradamente significativos; llevó los estudios históricos de Cuba más allá de la simple crónica externa de acontecimientos a menudo intrascendentes, o como ahora podría decirse con Spengler, ahistóricos o faltos de historicidad, y por primera vez en la historiografía cubana se enlazó íntimamente el desarrollo de nuestro pueblo con el resto de la vida mundial. Fernando Ortiz

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