Gringos en las pampas

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Andrés Orgaz Martínez analiza los paralelismos entre la Revolución mexicana y la revolución turca, las similitudes y contradicciones entre el gobierno de Plutarco Elías Calles y Kemal Atatürk, “el padre de los turcos”, y las repercusiones de estos conflictos en otras naciones del mundo. El autor abandona la aproximación eurocéntrica con la que se han estudiado las revoluciones del mundo y las analiza como reestructuraciones que representan un nodo en la red de contacto de pensamiento humano que une espacios geográficos tan aislados como México y Turquía.

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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...