The Archives of Cuba

Located halfway between Los Angeles and Yuma, Arizona, Indio came into being as a railroad town in 1876 when the Southern Pacific Railroad completed this last link in its southern transcontinental route. Settling this arid land took ingenuity and courage, and Indio's early residents had both. In the 1930s, Indio became a mining town when 92 miles of tunnel were dug through its eastern mountains for the Los Angeles Aqueduct, the largest construction project in the United States during the Depression. World War II brought Gen. George Patton's Desert Tank Corps to train nearby and crowd into...

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Con el propósito de hacer una relectura de “las grandes gestas heroicas”, la autora rompe con los paradigmas establecidos de la guerra de Guatemala e historiza a partir de la memoria de las mujeres.

«Cuando Leopoldo, Juan Miguel y Pedro me hicieron el honor de invitarme a redactar el presente prólogo, acepté entusiasmado porque en México requerimos de cientos de Leopoldos, Juan Migueles y Pedros que lleven a cabo trabajos monumentales de divulgación como el que actualmente tienen en sus manos. Estoy convencido de que para redactar la inmensa obra escrita por ellos son indispensables los siguientes ingredientes para alcanzar el éxito que han conquistado: uno, contar con un sólido amor por México; dos, tener algo que decir, material con el que ellos cuentan en abundancia; tres,...