Del taller a la fábrica de sueños

Los Esclavos de Yucatán es el primero de los reportajes que forman México Bárbaro, en él, Kennet Turner describe la brutal explotación en las haciendas henequeneras de la península del sureste mexicano

Bernal Díaz del Castillo (1492-1584) was a foot soldier in the army of Mexico's conqueror Hernán Cortés. The first edition of his True History of the Conquest of New Spain (as it was entitled in a later English translation) was published in Madrid in 1632 from a manuscript copy sent to Spain shortly after the author's death. Written in a highly accessible style, and describing the experiences of the troops themselves rather than seeing events from an officer's perspective, the work became even more successful than the official accounts and went through many editions and translations. The...

La historiografía oficial ha dedicado escaso eco a las personas que ostentaron la titularidad de la dinastía carlista, la otra dinastía, desde su emerger en 1833 hasta nuestros días. Estos ocho monarcas se enfrentaron al poder constituido de turno, unas veces con las armas en la mano y otras con la comparecencia electoral. Las cuatro guerras civiles en que intervinieron se saldaron, de una forma u otra, con sendas derrotas. Pero en la lucha electoral obtuvieron ciertos éxitos, que asustaron a los dictadores de turno. No me he limitado en este trabajo a ofrecer la simple narración...

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