Los romanos en Hispania

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...

Durante la guerra de Irak, el gobierno español se alineó con las posturas de Washington en total soledad parlamentaria y en medio de grandes manifestaciones de rechazo popular. Este libro, en el que Ángel Viñas se remonta a los orígenes de la conexión de España con Estados Unidos, se inicia con la política de espera que adoptó la dictadura para diluir su pecado original, tras el "episodio pasajero" de la segunda guerra mundial. En su hora de triunfo, Franco puso a disposición de los norteamericanos España entera, al socaire de la letra pequeña y oculta de los pactos de Madrid",...

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