Cultural Horizons Vols I & Ii

En Navarra hay tradiciones milenarias, centenarias y contemporáneas. Basta que un acontecimiento se repita unas pocas veces para que enseguida pase al acervo de la tradición. Así ocurre con actos que —sin ir más lejos— se han incorporado a los Sanfermines de Pamplona/Iruña en los últimos años o a fiestas recuperadas en muchos pueblos, donde solo los más ancianos las recordaban con añorada nostalgia. Con las coloridas Fiestas de Primavera y Verano, o los paloteados de San Juan, pasando por los Santos Sanadores, las Romerías, Semana Santa, las Fiestas de Hermandad, las Fiestas...

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute...

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...