Argentina en el mundo (1930-1960)

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...

"Inventario de los libros que han tenido ingreso en la seretaría de la Real academía," 1922-29, with v. 83, 85, 87, 89, 91-92, 96, 99.

Sabido es que todo empobrecimiento de la economia, sea social o animal, es un florecer de lo parasitario y la Finanza es el gran parasito. Pero aquella Revolucion americana no tenia solo el fin usurario de acrecentar el Poder del Dinero; ambicionaba mas. El Poder del Dinero, aunque poder politico, solo se habia ejercido de manera indirecta, y ahora debian convertirlo en un poder directo. El hombre a traves del cual lo ejercian seria Franklin Roosevelt. Ha comprendido?... Anote usted esto: En este ano de 1929, el ano primero de la Revolucion americana, en febrero, sale Trotsky de Rusia; el...

This book is a landmark in Mexican rural history. Activists and professional historians have long argued that the nineteenth-century privatization of indigenous communal lands was the original sin that laid the ground for the agrarian strife of the twentieth century. Many also claimed that this privatization drove the political mobilizations of indigenous peasants even before the Revolution. Nevertheless, very few historians have actually studied the process through which indigenous lands were privatized, and their findings have been published mostly as tantalizing but sketchy articles. In...