Elena Holmberg. La mujer que sabía demasiado

Suggesting that better understanding of conflicts between Anglo and Latin America can come from the study of their contrasting popular fictions, the author compares the traditional attachment in Latin America to government by a strong man—a caudillo—to the diametrically opposed expansionist frontier ideology of the United States—the cowboy—who makes space safe for Anglo colonization.

Recoge: La ideología contrarrevolucionaria; La Iglesia y la Contrarrevolución; El movimiento Jacovita; El oeste de Francia en 1789; El carlismo; El bandolerismo.

Invocado por todos sus gobiernos, hecho suyo por los más diversos y hasta contrapuestos sectores, Simón Bolívar atraviesa la historia venezolana. Es una sombra bajo la que todos quieren estar, una imagen que cada uno quiere a su lado. Tanto como sus ideas y sus batallas, la épica tejida a su alrededor es una inspiración que todos evocan y un premio que todos codician. Este libro es un recorrido por varias estaciones del culto bolivariano que analiza, a través de episodios concretos, ese fenómeno ya anunciado por otros autores de entidad, como Germán Carrera Damas y Luis Castro Leiva....

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