Quinto poder

Los objetos realizados para el placer de reyes, nobles, comerciantes e incluso de la gente corriente ofrecen fascinantes testimonios de las modas y pasatiempos de la vida medieval. El amor cortés, la heráldica, los banquetes, la caza y la agricultura proporcionaron buenos temas decorativos. Los cacharros diseñados para comer o beber a menudo estaban decorados con inscripciones, o bien modelados en forma de rostro humano o de caballero. Las bestias del bosque, representadas en el famoso cuerno de Savernake, contrastan con las escenas y símbolos de amor que aparecen tanto en arquetas...

En este libro Samper, hombre de letras de Colombia, relata sus viajes, en pleno siglo XIX, por España, Gran Bretaña, Francia, Suiza y Alemania.

From reviews of the Spanish edition: “Meyer’s perceptive commentary on Mexican power politics presents new insights into the petroleum lobbies in Mexico City and Washington. With unbiased empathy he shows the validity of Mexico’s complaints about foreigners’ deriving an overabundance of profit from a nonrenewable natural resource. He understands United States history and never abuses his license to criticize.” —Hispanic American Historical Review “This useful addition to the literature on twentieth-century Mexican–United States diplomatic relations is a scholarly work, worthy...

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...