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Este libro estudia los origenes de la Universidad de La Habana que en la epoca colonial fue dirigida por la Orden de los Dominicos. Pero ademas de aportar datos importantes sobre el origen y desarrollo de la Universidad y de la historia colonial cubana, ofrece un resumen biografico de las personalidades cubanas que estudiaron en la Universidad en los siglos xviii y xix, que fueron los forjadores de la Nacion Cubana. Entre ellos: Arango y Parre?o, Jose A. Caballero, Escobedo, Pe?alver, Romay, Urrutia, P. Felix Varela, Aguilera, Joaquin de Aguero, Bachiller y Morales, Calixto Bernal, Cespedes,...

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...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute...