Una nueva mirada a las independencias

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...

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Un libro imperdible para conocer la historia argentina. Félix Luna entrevista al historiador más importante que dio el país y uno de los más grandes de Latinoamérica.

America Latina, estrechamente ligada por la geografia a su poderoso vecino del norte, ha experimentado enormes mutaciones desde la Independencia, las cuales se han acelerado en los ultimos tiempos; baste recordar que en la actualidad esta inmersa en un proceso de integracion economica. Paralelamente, en este libro salen a la luz nuevas interpretaciones de la historia que, por encima de lo socioeconomico esencial, dan su debido lugar de protagonistas a la ideologia, los mitos y la religion de las naciones.