América Latina entre siglos

La discusión acerca del tipo de sistema monetario fue una de las controversias más fecundas y de mayores alcances durante el siglo XIX en Colombia. El debate político y las luchas de poder al interior de las élites regionales determinaron las medidas que se tomaron para solucionar las dificultades. La moneda y la política monetaria se convirtieron en un instrumento de política estatal y en una herramienta fundamental de intervención del Estado en la política. La hipótesis central de este trabajo es que la política monetaria constituyó uno de los elementos centrales en la...

La admiracion, franca o encubierta, que produce Benito Juarez se debe muy especialmente a que supo ser el sagaz guia de una irrepetible generacion de mexicanos, la nacida a raiz del comienzo del movimiento de Independencia que logro restaurar la Republica. Roeder logra en Juarez y su Mexico uno de los mejores estudios con que se cuenta sobre el hombre y la epoca juarista.

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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...