Convento Viejo en el corazón

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Durante los siglos XVI y XVII, gran parte de la Real Audiencia de Quito es un territorio de frontera. En la mitad septentrional, la autoridad de los funcionarios coloniales se limita a los valles serranos y solo en algunas ocasiones se extiende hacia el territorio situado en los contrafuertes andinos. Aunque la población de Quito no se encuentra directamente amenazada por los indígenas hostiles, a uno y otro lado de la ciudad, tanto al este como al oeste, es posible encontrar, apenas a un par de jornadas, grupos indígenas hostiles, denominados "indios de guerra" en los documentos...

Campos de muerte. Geografía del mal no pretende ser un inventario de la crueldad, sino un fogonazo de la profunda vileza que caracteriza a nuestra especie. En sus páginas se desentraña la implacable evidencia de la sangre y las lágrimas derramadas por millones de deportados, víctimas del hambre, el agotamiento, las enfermedades o, simplemente, el asesinato. Campos de exterminio, torturas, experimentos médicos aberrantes, mano de obra esclava, inhumanas condiciones de vida. Crímenes como los del Holocausto, los cometidos por el régimen estalinista o los del Jémer Rojo, junto con las...