Jose Agustín Blanco Barros. Obras completas

High in the Inyo Mountains, between Owens Valley and Death Valley National Park, lies the ghost town of Cerro Gordo. Discovered in 1865, this silver town boomed to a population of 3,000 people in the hands of savvy entrepreneurs during the 1870s. As the silver played out and the town faded, a few hung on to the dream. By the early 1900s, Louis D. Gordon wandered up the Yellow Grade Road where freight wagons once traversed with silver and supplies and took a closer look at the zinc ore that had been tossed aside by early miners. The Fat Hill lived again, primarily as a small company town. By...

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"El Catatumbo -etimológicamente, \'la casa de los truenos\'- es una subregión transfronteriza ubicada entre Colombia y Venezuela. Ha sido célebre de manera venturosa gracias a la inmortalización, realizada por las crónicas de los tiempos coloniales, de un fenómeno natural maravilloso de tormentas eléctricas denominado ""el relámpago del Catatumbo"". Los barí lo definieron como ""la concentración de millones de cocuyos"" (luciérnagas). Fiel a la referencia heredada de este singular paisaje, la cual no solo se revela desde la majestuosidad de la naturaleza, sino que ha sabido, con...

Dos hechos saltan a la vista. En primer lugar, que, en los últimos veinte años, la Shoah ha sido objeto de actividades conmemorativas generalizadas en todo el mundo occidental. En segundo lugar, que, en los últimos veinte años, el racismo y la intolerancia se han incrementado drásticamente en aquellos países donde la política de la memoria se ha implementado con mayor intensidad. ¿Son hechos que no están relacionados, dos secuencias históricas independientes, de la misma manera que no existe ningún vínculo demostrable entre, digamos, la violencia en los estadios de fútbol y los...