Historia de la Isla de Cuba I

Vargas Llosa and daughter Morgana traveled to Israel and Palestine in 2005, and while Morgana's lens captured the Israeli exodus from 21 settlements along the Gaza Strip, Vargas Llosa interviewed several of the Jewish settlers.

How did Spanish America influence the creation of an independent Brazil? In the six studies that this book contains, Joao Paulo Pimenta covers several points of contact between the Hispanic and Luso-American revolutionary processes in an attempt to show that the reciprocal parallelisms imply an erroneous separation of the two movements which are actually just one

La inmolación en defensa de los principios democráticos en un Palacio de La Moneda envuelto en llamas convirtió a Salvador Allende en una de las grandes personalidades del siglo XX. Sin embargo, su memoria se ha quedado atrapada en la tragedia del 11 de septiembre de 1973. Su prolongada trayectoria anterior a 1970, su defensa de un socialismo democrático y revolucionario o su solidaridad con las luchas del Tercer Mundo permanecen en el olvido; ni siquiera las extraordinarias conquistas de sus mil días de gobierno son comúnmente reconocidas. Y, sin embargo, junto con el 11 de septiembre, ...

What was once a romantic race for the skies at the turn of the century has become, now at the threshold of the new Millennium, a fierce commercial competition where no contestant can afford to lose ground. Catastrofes aereas is a journey through the most resonant and disastrous accidents in the history of commercial aviation, where the account of the events, experts' investigations, technical explanations, and the testimonies of those who lived or witnessed it are but the beginning of the story. There is also the political, economic and social context in which they occurred, and the outside...