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This study offers a profound study of Arrufat's play, using most recent critical trends concerning the performance aspect of the drama. It examines the genre of the drama and its relationship to the phenomenon of the Cuban Revolution, Arrufat as a Cuban playwright of the 60s and his re-writing of the Greek theme of the fratricidal fight in Aeschylus' Seven Against Thebes. Also contains a recent interview with Arrufat in which he describes the social circumstances surrounding the play and some of his classical re-writing techniques.

The abolition of judicial torture—alongside the eradication of both slavery and capital punishment—was one of the most consequential issues debated in eighteenth-century continental Europe. A revealing component of this controversial debate was presented in the unpublished "Discurso sobre la injusticia del apremio judicial," written by the attorney Pedro Garcia del Canuelo. Seeking support for its publication, he forwarded the manuscript to Prime Minister Manuel Godoy in 1795. The savvy Spanish politician, however, not only rejected the text but also warned its author against further...

La remolacha azucarera, o betabel, como era conocido este cultivo por los jornaleros mexicanos, se introdujo en Estados Unidos en los años posteriores a la Guerra Civil. Ese conflicto destruyó los campos cañeros de Luisiana y provocó un aumento desmedido en las importaciones de azúcar desde el Caribe. Como consecuencia, autoridades gubernamentales y empresarios optaron por este tubérculo como una fuente de endulzantes. Cuando la siembra de remolacha se expandió, las compañías azucareras estadounidenses contrataron a miles de trabajadores mexicanos para su cuidado y cultivo. Se...

Esta obra contiene la dosis m nima de conocimiento sobre la historia de nuestro pa s. Destinada a todos cuantos quieran una historia verdadera, interesante y escrita en un lenguaje sencillo y claro.