Biografía de Costa Rica

Ésta es la crónica de un México devastado. En su geografía hay personas que se cubren el rostro con máscaras de nailon, pasamontañas, paliacates, capuchas, mascadas, camisetas. Los embozos exponen sin proponérselo esa devastación y son empleados –de forma ocasional o permanente– con distintos fines: confrontarse con el Estado, defender una comunidad o un territorio, proteger la propia vida u ocultarse para delinquir, reprimir, matar. La historia de México bien puede escribirse a través de los resortes y los saldos de la subversión. Están presentes en esta crónica las...

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Un recorrido por la historia del distrito madrileño de Salamanca a través de los tiempos, contada con anécdotas, planos, grabados, fotografías y dibujos.

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...