Rafael Ginard de la Rosa

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DEVELACIONES DEL ÁNGEL DE LA INDEPENDENCIA de Antonio P. Rivas Un rayo de luz verde ilumina la vida de un paseante, como le ocurriera al Quasimodo de Víctor Hugo en Notre Dame de París. El caminante frecuentará el Monumento a la Independencia con oídos atentos, y con curiosidad, escuchará tonos del llamado ‘Ángel de la Independencia’, quien ha tomado la voz principal. No es la primera vez que una obra arquitectónica inspira una narrativa. Es un ensayo en prosa poética con viajes a la épica independentista. La presencia de Hidalgo y de Morelos destacarán a lo ancho de la obra....

Uno de los eventos mas importantes en la historia de la aviacion es aun desconocido por muchos, debido al encubrimiento de los paises que lo protagonizaron, los Estados Unidos y la Union Sovietica. Ocurrio durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial y la Guerra Fria que le siguio, y tuvo serias consecuencias sobre la politica internacional. Caido del cielo recrea como el dictador de la Union Sovietica, Joseph Stalin, hizo una copia exacta del B-29 norteamericano --bombardero estrategico superpesado de largo alcance-- y lo convirtio en el TU-4 sovietico. Es un relato lleno de accion e intriga, donde...

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...