El gran rescate

Great men were once children, and perhaps, they even desired to have everything we now have at arm's reach. Some were born into poverty; others were orphaned and cared for by relatives or institutions. Extreme scarcity or social turmoil was often a part of their daily lives. However, these greats allowed themselves to envision a better future and follow their dreams. They worked incessantly to make their visions a reality. As a result, they've gifted humanity with proof that dreams do come true.

Este libro cuenta la historia de 64 grandes momentos de los deportistas que brillaron en el atletismo cubano, quienes en el fragor de las competencias lograron al menos una medalla de cualquier color, en los más exigentes eventos del calendario internacional. En sentido general, las disciplinas de campo atesoran la mayor cantidad de premios dorados conquistados por los atletas cubanos en las competencias mundiales y olímpicas, lo que da la medida del avance alcanzado por los criollos en este complejo y subyugante mundo de tiempos y marcas. De interés para todo tipo de lector, el libro...

Descubre la vida y obra de la figura principal del movimiento por los derechos civiles. “Tengo un sueño” es una de las frases más famosas e importantes de la historia estadounidense reciente. Es una frase que el ministro cristiano e ícono de los derechos civiles Martin Luther King Jr. lo usó en un discurso que pronunció durante la Marcha en Washington en 1963. Estaba pidiendo igualdad y libertad para los negros en todo Estados Unidos. Para muchos hoy, este discurso marca el apogeo simbólico del movimiento estadounidense de derechos civiles de la década de 1960, que King ayudó a...

There is very scarce information on the author of this peculiar book, that many scholars consider initiated the British appetite for the Spanish colonies in South America. Accarette -as he calls himself- or Accarette du Biscay -as appears in the English translation of his story- seems to have been a French-Basque adventurer who traveled twice to South America between 1657 and 1660 under the false identity of a Spanish subject, as the Spanish regime would not allow non-subjects to disembark in its colonies. His most evident purpose -a fact Accarette does not hide- was the lucrative smuggling...