Tiempo Perdido

Mucho antes de que la imagen guerrillera de Ernesto Guevara de la Serna, (el “Che” de la propaganda política de izquierda y la mercantil de ambas márgenes) cayera sobre Cuba como una lapa sangrienta, los cubanos conocieron y acogieron con calor las voces y actuaciones de Libertad Lamarque, Carlos Gardel, Hugo del Carril y Tita Merelo, como mismo habían recibido la literatura de Alfonsina Storni, Leopoldo Lugones, Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, Ricardo Guiraldes, Jorge Luis Borges, Mujica Láines y numerosos otros. De particular relieve en este panorama es la figura del patriota, poeta y...

Luis Candelas, el bandido castizo de Madrid -nacido en el barrio de Lavapiés-, es parte de la historia de nuestra ciudad. Y es el único bandido urbano. Su ingenio y habilidad mental para llevar a cabo los robos le crearon una aureola de leyenda que hizo que se le atribuyeran más delitos de los cometidos realmente. Luis Candelas gozaba de simpatía y popularidad entre el pueblo de Madrid. Anteponía su ingenio a la violencia, presumía de que jamás hubiera cometido un delito de sangre y , disfrazado la mayoría de las veces, cometió una serie de robos que le dieron tanta fama pero... su...

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High in the Inyo Mountains, between Owens Valley and Death Valley National Park, lies the ghost town of Cerro Gordo. Discovered in 1865, this silver town boomed to a population of 3,000 people in the hands of savvy entrepreneurs during the 1870s. As the silver played out and the town faded, a few hung on to the dream. By the early 1900s, Louis D. Gordon wandered up the Yellow Grade Road where freight wagons once traversed with silver and supplies and took a closer look at the zinc ore that had been tossed aside by early miners. The Fat Hill lived again, primarily as a small company town. By...