El Genio Pródigo

1982 fue uno de los años más tumultuosos en la vida de Gabriel García Márquez. Terminaba el gobierno de Julio César Turbay Ayala, al cual se había opuesto toda la izquierda colombiana por sus métodos represivos y dignos de una dictadura de ultraderecha: cientos de encarcelados, torturados y perseguidos políticos bajo la doctrina del Estatuto de seguridad. García Márquez había sido férreo opositor a esa lógica y un defensor de una salida pacífica al problema de las guerrillas. Ese año, sin embargo, el gobierno lanzó la amenaza de que iba a capturarlo y el escritor se exilió en ...

Provides a collection of quotations that reflect the political views and values of America's forty-fourth president.

From the candid listeners of his beginning as the jubilant and Mediterranean singer, more than five decades have passed. Many of Joan Manuel Serrat's songs are stuck in the memory of various generations. They have become hymns and luminous landscapes in our lives, of dreams and desires that have crossed between singer and audience. The author understands the true universality of an artist is always rooted in his origins. Starting at Serrat's own chronicles as a child, in a melting pot neighborhood, mixed like his own Catalan and Aragon family, it tells the story of a singer that transformed...

A look to the world of the drug trafficker's lawyers, from Colombia to the United States. They are men and women that have pursuits and a family life, just like everybody else. Ricardo Ravelo, presents us a detailed portrait of those who defend the most well-known drug dealers of Colombia and Mexico who have faced trials in the United States.The facts here narrated are harsh and unpublished, but absolutely real, although they may seem to be the result of the most audacious imagination. No one will be surprised to see the name of Colombian lawyer Gustavo Salazar, advocate of Pablo Escobar; of...