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Esta obra descorre el velo de un vasto y relevante aspecto de la sociedad mexicana en gestación durante las últimas décadas de la colonia y los primeros lustros de México independiente. Se explican a través del púlpito los destellos otoñales del barroco, el tránsito al neoclásico, la euforia del guadalupanismo, la variedad de devociones y valores de aquella sociedad rezandera y pecadora; en fin, el drama desgarrador de la insurgencia. Y se pinta, por medio de la tribuna septembrina, facetas de la política y la cultura de la primera república federal.

What was once a romantic race for the skies at the turn of the century has become, now at the threshold of the new Millennium, a fierce commercial competition where no contestant can afford to lose ground. Catastrofes aereas is a journey through the most resonant and disastrous accidents in the history of commercial aviation, where the account of the events, experts' investigations, technical explanations, and the testimonies of those who lived or witnessed it are but the beginning of the story. There is also the political, economic and social context in which they occurred, and the outside...

Viajero incansable, Armando Fuentes Aguirre, Catón, recorre todos los caminos de México. No hay estado del país al que no lo hayan llevado sus andanzas. Quien ame esta patria y quiera sentir su genio y su figura, su corazón y su alma, encontrará en este libro motivos para amarla más profundamente y conocerla mejor. Catón hace un recuento de sus vivencias a lo largo y ancho del país que deriva en un crisol de la cultura popular mexicana: los mercados, la música, las iglesias, la gente, entre muchas otras cosas. En cada una de estas páginas, el lector sentirá el latido de nuestro...