Cerro Gordo

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...

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Visión crítica y documentada de las repercusiones que, para la Iglesia y la sociedad, ha tenido la canonización de José María Escrivá de Balaguer, fundador del Opus Dei.

"Con las armas del talento, la ironía, la síntesis, y el don de la expresión contundente, la frase aguda y la comparación chispeante, Jorge Elías se mueve por todo el continente y avanza y retrocede en el tiempo, por lo cual su mirada se extiende a la corrupción de los noventa en el Perú, al encubrimiento de la prensa estadounidense durante la guerra con Irak, o a la complicidad que en 1980 mostró en la Comisión de Derechos Humanos de la ONU el gobierno de Fidel Castro, el pretendido sucesor de Martí en Cuba, con la dictadura militar argentina." Del prólogo de José Ignacio García ...