Las compañías Chocó Pacífico y Tropical Oil a comienzos del siglo XX. Retratos en blanco y negro

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Como una rueda La ciudad de Babel es la noria, que representa muchas cosas: la luz, la sombra y el eterno retorno, como lo pensó Nietzsche y, mi héroe, o mejor, mi antihéroe, Emiliano Isaías Gamboa, una brizna insignificante en el engranaje de esa máquina, que prefigura el tiempo con sus fantasmas y sus ilusiones de un mundo que simboliza el paraíso y el infierno terrenal de una época histórica que, curiosamente, parece haber sido borrada del mapa mental junto con sus habitantes.

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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