El otro colonialismo

Reuni n de trabajos, fruto del di logo y de las controversias que genera el estudio de fen menos culturales concretos entre los historiadores del mundo hisp nico de la Edad Moderna: el encuentro y simbiosis intelectual de dos mundos distantes y pr ximos a la vez.

Exclusive interviews with key political figures in Mexico—former presidents Zedillo and Salinas, and guerrilla leader Marcos—are the basis of this study that untangles the complex influences that have shaped Mexico over the past 20 years. From the Zapatistas to electoral fraud, this well-researched history accounts for many parts of Mexican politics and economy that have remained obscured by official silence. Beyond recurring catastrophes, however, this journalist finds the seed of a modern democracy in Vicente Fox's presidency, one which the author analyzes in a prologue added for this...

Does a “perfect assassination” exist? Perfect crimes are the ones we never hear about. Crimes involving a double affront to their victims where we couldn’t have known leaves their closest relatives, helpless and disheartened at the destruction. “Thou shall not kill,” is present in all civilizations as a fundamental premise, and perhaps the only one absolutely necessary for coexistence between humans. The majority of these crimes are considered perfect solely because of the incompetence of the investigators. With detention techniques, no crime, regardless of how well-planned, always...

Historiadores primitivos de Indias: Noticias biogr?ficas. Verdadera historia de los sucesos de la conquista de la Nueva-Espa?a, por Bernal D?az del Castillo. Verdadera relacion de la conquista del Per? y Provincia del Cuzco, por Francisco de Jerez. La cr?nica del Per?, nuevamente escrita por Pedro de Cieza de Leon. Historia del descubrimiento y conquista del Per?, por Agustin de Z?rate.