Breve historia de Cosa Nostra

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«La Historia general y natural las Indias (1535-1549)»de Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés es una obra de gran interés para la geografía e historia natural del Nuevo Mundo, compuesta de narraciones legendarias, episodios y anécdotas, es decir diferentes estilos de contar las experiencias vividas, impregnadas de providencialismo y de otros juicios de valor procedentes de una formación retórica tradicional y de la pastoral judeocristiana. Su estilo literario es propio de la historia panegírica configurando un discurso salpicado de héroes arquetípicos de un orden teleológico...

In the sixteenth century, in the eyes of the ruling class, land, arable land, remained the basis of all prosperity. As the dignitary rose in rank, he acquired the rights to more and larger areas of real estate. Theoretically, nobody was the owner of the land. The land belonged to the collective owner, calpulli, to public institutions such as temples, or to the city itself. There was no private ownership of the land, there was collective ownership with individual right of use.

Una concisa y legible perspectiva de Cuba, revisada a fondo y escrita por cubanos para cualquier persona interesada en comprender rápidamente la turbulenta historia del país insular. Cuba: una breve historia abarca el período prehispánico, pasando por la lucha de Cuba por mantener la revolución en los años posteriores al colapso de la Unión Soviética; el período posterior a la decisión de Fidel Castro de abandonar el cargo; la apertura a Cuba en 2014 por parte de la Administración Obama; la jubilación de Raúl Castro y el reemplazo como presidente en 2018 de Miguel Díaz Canal; y...