Los "teatros" de la memoria

El Camino Real de Tierra Adentro, the Royal Road of the Interior, is the earliest Euro-American trade route of cultures and commerce in the United States. It spanned about 1,800 miles from Mexico City, where the road originated, to Santa Fe, in New Mexico. For three centuries, this Spanish colonial road followed a network of ancient Native American footpaths and trails that followed the wide expanse of the Rio Grande valley. There were parajes, or campgrounds, along the way for travelers, and early Spanish settlements were established too. Some of the towns and villages are now modern cities, ...

En 1967, un jovencísimo Eduardo Galeano emprendió un viaje que marcaría su carrera como periodista y su sensibilidad política para siempre: pasó varios meses en Guatemala con el objetivo de entrevistar a los líderes de los dos grupos guerrilleros –las FAR y el MR 13– que desafiaban a la elite político-militar en el poder desde 1954, cuando el derrocamiento del presidente Jacobo Árbenz Guzmán había transparentado de manera inequívoca y brutal el intervencionismo estadounidense en América Latina. Este libro, publicado hace más de cincuenta años, es el relato de aquella...

La Segunda Guerra Mundial concluyó con la derrota de la Alemania nazi en mayo de 1945. Con su visión obstinada y fanática de la realidad, y dejando tras de sí un rastro de millones de muertos, Hitler condujo a su país al abismo.Algunas de las...

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...