“Para que estén a punto con sus armas para lo que se ofreciere” Indios en la defensa del suroriente cubano, siglos XVI-XVIII

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El ser latinoamericano ha existido, existe y existirá fermentándose siempre en nuestra cotidianidad sensible, pues no hay identidad sin cercanía material, sin objetos queridos, sin lugares amados, sin espacios habitados, sin autorreconocimiento estético. Partiendo de este convencimiento, nos hemos arriesgado con el presente trabajo a responder por fin la esquiva pregunta heideggeriana: ¿qué es el ser?... Sin lugar a duda, ¡el ser es "lo sencillo"! Solo basta con internarnos en “El camino en el campo” para develar, desde un diálogo muy propio con Heidegger, que el ser es la...

As a young man, Ramon Perez aka Tianguis interrupted his studies and elisted in a burgeoning guerrilla movement to reclaim his people to ancestral communal lands in the mountains of Oaxaca, Mexico. From the grassroots organizing conducted by the peasants to the power of regional and national politicians to enforce their social order with pistoleros -- through Tianguis' unwavering account we experience the struggle and its consequences. The pursuit of Guiero Medrano -- and of Tianguis and his friends -- is unremitting; there is no escape as they flee through the forests, small towns, and...

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