La disputa del Nuevo Mundo

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...

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La España que conocemos, con su rica variedad regional, se formó en la Edad Media. Los procesos históricos de reconquista y repoblación del territorio por los cristianos fueron delimitando las fronteras de los reinos, dando personalidad a los territorios y articulándolos en torno a redes de ciudades. MIGUEL ÁNGEL LADERO QUESADA analiza en LA FORMACIÓN MEDIEVAL DE ESPAÑA los factores que dieron lugar a cada una de las regiones españolas en aquel tiempo de gestación donde se encuentran nuestras verdaderas raíces. Para ello, presenta todos los aspectos de ese mundo cambiante y...

Para los mapuche su referencia geográfica es el Este, lugar donde nace el sol. Desde aquí debemos situarnos para comenzar a mirar y comprender el mundo y la vida en él. Para ellos, el territorio fundamento de su existencia: es vida, espiritualidad, pasado y presente, yo en los otros.