Romances

La Puerta del Sol no es el centro geográfico de Madrid pero es el «centro» del centro de la ciudad, y es la única plaza que no lleva el calificativo de «Plaza de...». La Puerta del Sol es así. Única en Madrid.

The abolition of judicial torture—alongside the eradication of both slavery and capital punishment—was one of the most consequential issues debated in eighteenth-century continental Europe. A revealing component of this controversial debate was presented in the unpublished "Discurso sobre la injusticia del apremio judicial," written by the attorney Pedro Garcia del Canuelo. Seeking support for its publication, he forwarded the manuscript to Prime Minister Manuel Godoy in 1795. The savvy Spanish politician, however, not only rejected the text but also warned its author against further...

«Este libro, el cuarto que publica la Cátedra de Pensamiento Colombiano de la Universidad Nacional de Colombia, cubre un periodo corto pero muy intenso en acontecimientos políticos y sociales: los años de los gobiernos de Mariano Ospina Pérez, Laureano Gómez y Gustavo Rojas Pinilla. Está delimitado por dos hitos muy precisos en la historia de Colombia: el asesinato del líder popular Jorge Eliécer Gaitán, en 1948, y el comienzo del Frente Nacional, en 1957. Los ensayos recogidos abordan aspectos que no habían sido objeto de atención de los historiadores o que merecían un nuevo...

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