Caza de Brujas

Laleyenda del amante uruguayo de Lorca narrada por Santiago Roncagliolo, Premio Alfaguara 2006 En 1953, el escritor uruguayo Enrique Amorim erigió un misterioso monumento en la frontera entre Uruguay y Argentina. El memorial tenía la forma de una lápida, y en su interior Amorim enterró un osario. El discurso inaugural y la correspondencia posterior sugieren que ahí yacían los restos de Federico García Lorca. Este libro comienza con el enigma de este monumento y luego pasa al enigma del propio Amorim. Millonario pero comunista, escritor pero hacendado, homosexual pero casado, uruguayo...

La tendencia a imponer la ley del más fuerte es una marca identitaria de la Argentina. El resultado es la escasa correlación entre el país legal y el país real. En este libro, el fiscal Federico Delgado revisa las prácticas que hacen posible la impunidad en la Argentina y que forman un sistema que se reproduce para garantizar que nada cambie. Y explica el rol de los actores decisivos: jueces, fiscales, funcionarios públicos y periodistas. Delgado recurre a casos judiciales, experiencias personales y algunos conceptos teóricos para mostrar cómo se construye socialmente la impunidad,...

Zoé Valdés grew up in Havana back in the sixties, as a restless and sappy girl, between the deprivations and the iron control of the Castro dictatorship. At that time, she did not know that, a few years later, she would become the most famous Cuban writer of her time. But the yearning for freedom, as in so many other cases, ultimately prevailed, and in 1995, while invited to a conference on José Martí in Paris, she asked for political asylum in France. That decision would mark her life and would be the beginning of a long series of recognitions and awards for a fruitful and impeccable...

Many of Ronald Reagan's ways were not only unusual, but seem to contradict his others. Some authors are so perplexed by his nature they are reluctant to even assign intelligence to his mentality. They suspect he operated on everything from instinct to hunches to gut feelings and guesses. Lawrence Nesbitt's six years of extensive research has revealed a single psychological key that makes sense of the anomalies and contradictions. He has uncovered a powerful and nearly unique mindset that directed almost all of Reagan's conduct then and causes the confusion now. This unusual belief also...