Conferencias del mes: año 2013

El enigmático Carlos V, emperador de Europa y el Nuevo Mundo, es la fi gura central en torno a la que gira el monumental estudio de la gran historia del Imperio español que Hugh Thomas comenzó a narrar con gran éxito en su obra El imperio español. Este volumen comienza en 1522 con el regreso de los restos de la expedición de Magallanes y termina con la muerte de Carlos V en 1558. Entre esos años, los españoles conquistan Guatemala, Yucatán, Colombia, Venezuela, Perú y Chile, y controlan ambos lados del poderoso Río de la Plata. Con su habitual estilo colorido y detallista, Thomas...

For more than half a century, Cuba has suffered one of the longest-running dictatorships in history, where dozens of political prisoners are held in prison, and the entire population is locked up in a large penitentiary where neither dissent nor disagreement is forgiven, and the dissidents are punished with years in prison or death. It is a new oligarchic class, with a single political party, without elections, with an absolute disregard for Human Rights, without public and civil liberties, making it illegal to be part of the political opposition, with public education in the exclusive hands...

¿QUIÉN DIJO QUE EN EL PERÚ NO SE LE RENDÍAN HONORES A DON JOSE ANTONIO DE LA SANTÍSIMA TRINIDAD BOLIVAR PALACIOS Y BLANCO, EL LIBERTADOR? HE AQUÍ UN DOCUMENTO QUE PRUEBA LO CONTRARIO.

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