Conchas de fuego y de sangre

High in the Inyo Mountains, between Owens Valley and Death Valley National Park, lies the ghost town of Cerro Gordo. Discovered in 1865, this silver town boomed to a population of 3,000 people in the hands of savvy entrepreneurs during the 1870s. As the silver played out and the town faded, a few hung on to the dream. By the early 1900s, Louis D. Gordon wandered up the Yellow Grade Road where freight wagons once traversed with silver and supplies and took a closer look at the zinc ore that had been tossed aside by early miners. The Fat Hill lived again, primarily as a small company town. By...

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Estremecedor cómputo de las heridas psíquicas y emocionales que, infligidas a los españoles durante la Guerra, permanecen dolorosas y abiertas porque la Victoria de Franco escarbó y ahondó en ellas durante 40 años, y luego porque la Transición se olvidó de cerrarlas o de procurar algún alivio a las víctimas de aquella victoria. Heridos de la Guerra, sexta y última entrega de la serie que Rafael Torres ha dedicado al capítulo más traumático de nuestra historia reciente, se compone de las 17 historias reales, desconocidas, escalofriantes, de 17 heridos graves en aquella...

Cuban intellectual Roberto Regalado provides a critical analysis of the issues facing Latin America today. He examines the political crises, the emerging social movements on the continent that are spearheading international resistance to neoliberalism-from the water struggles in Bolivia to the landless movement in Brazil-and considers alternative options for development.