Los funerales de Castro

"Cuatro años en Cuba como corresponsal de Televisión Española deberían ser suficientes para agotar mi capacidad de asombro", escribe Vicente Botín, autor de Los funerales de Castro. Pero no ha sido así. Cuba, como la pipa de Magritte, no es una isla, es la imagen de una isla. Hay que vivir en Cuba para saber cómo es la vida cotidiana, para entender que hay dos situaciones, una real y otra virtual, y que los cubanos habitan ambas a la vez sin estar locos, como dice el bolero de Richard Danenberg. Cuba no es el mundo feliz que reflejan los medios de comunicación, en Cuba hay una...

La decadencia económica de los imperios es uno de los grandes temas que se han planteado los historiadores: ¿cuáles son las causas de que incluso los imperios más poderosos y brillantes se hundan, reproduciendo el ciclo inevitable de crecimiento, decadencia y muerte de los seres vivos? Este libro demuestra que la razón está lejos de ser única y que cada caso ha de ser analizado en su contexto histórico concreto, pero que existen algunos factores comunes, como pueden ser el crecimiento desmedido del gasto, las tensiones inflacionistas o la resistencia a la innovación. Introducidos por ...

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...

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...

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...