España, ombligo del mundo

What was once a romantic race for the skies at the turn of the century has become, now at the threshold of the new Millennium, a fierce commercial competition where no contestant can afford to lose ground. Catastrofes aereas is a journey through the most resonant and disastrous accidents in the history of commercial aviation, where the account of the events, experts' investigations, technical explanations, and the testimonies of those who lived or witnessed it are but the beginning of the story. There is also the political, economic and social context in which they occurred, and the outside...

Este libro nos adentra en un recorrido por el pasado del pueblo maya y las dificultades con las que se ha encontrado a lo largo de la historia, pese a las cuales ha logrado conservar una gran parte de su cultura. La autora ha estudiado los diferentes procesos políticos en los que este pueblo se ha visto involucrado y las estrategias que ha desarrollado para hacer frente a las injusticias que se le han presentado, tales como el arrebato de sus tierras para cultivo y los abusos de las compañías henequeneras, que en siglos anteriores tuvieron una relevancia colosal, en especial en territorio...

"Fuerte es el silencio - donde lo llamado `policiaco' recupera su dignidad politica, donde las muertes y las vidas no son absurdas, donde se reconstruyen los hechos que les han dado su cariz a nuestros dias, donde los sentimientos se hilvanan para recuperar la memoria- constituye una admirable principio de la verdadera historia mexicana."

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