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"This is a story about how I was saved by love at a time when most people considered me beyond rescue," begins Victor Rivas Rivers in this powerful chronicle of how he escaped the war zone of domestic violence -- too often regarded as a "private family matter" -- and went on to become a good man, a film star, and a prominent activist. The Cuban-born author begins by recalling when he was kidnapped, along with three of his siblings, by his own father, who abandoned Victor's pregnant mother and took the children on a cross-country hell-ride that nearly ended in a fatal collision. This journey...

There is very scarce information on the author of this peculiar book, that many scholars consider initiated the British appetite for the Spanish colonies in South America. Accarette -as he calls himself- or Accarette du Biscay -as appears in the English translation of his story- seems to have been a French-Basque adventurer who traveled twice to South America between 1657 and 1660 under the false identity of a Spanish subject, as the Spanish regime would not allow non-subjects to disembark in its colonies. His most evident purpose -a fact Accarette does not hide- was the lucrative smuggling...

En sus memorias, la top model Waris Dirie narra sus primeros años de vida en el desierto somalí, el dolor y el trauma de la ablación, y su epopeya hasta convertirse en una de las modelos más reconocidas del mundo y embajadora de las Naciones Unidas a favor de los derechos de las mujeres y los niños en África.

En la actualidad general de brigada en las Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Cuba, Harry Villegas trabajó y luchó durante una década al lado de Ernesto Che Guevara: en Cuba, el Congo y Bolivia. Villegas habla de las luchas en las que participó a lo largo de cuatro décadas, entre ellas la derrota en 1988 del ejército del apartheid sudafricano en Cuito Cuanavale en Angola. Explica, sobre todo, la importancia del legado político de Guevara para una nueva generación de combatientes en el mundo. Fotos, notas.Villegas worked and fought alongside Ernesto Che Guevara for a decade—in Cuba,...