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Bernal Díaz del Castillo (1492-1584) was a foot soldier in the army of Mexico's conqueror Hernán Cortés. The first edition of his True History of the Conquest of New Spain (as it was entitled in a later English translation) was published in Madrid in 1632 from a manuscript copy sent to Spain shortly after the author's death. Written in a highly accessible style, and describing the experiences of the troops themselves rather than seeing events from an officer's perspective, the work became even more successful than the official accounts and went through many editions and translations. The...

El presente volumen, compilado a partir de un seminario de graduados impartido en el Center for Latin American Studies de la Universidad de Florida, reúne diversos ensayos y ponencias del historiador Germán Carrera Damas que analizan las perversiones que a lo largo de la historia, y en el presente venezolano, han asaltado al culto a Bolívar. El autor sostiene que, desde Páez a Guzmán Blanco, desde Gómez hasta Chávez, se ha recurrido a la figura de El Libertador convirtiendo el bolivarianismo en un fundamentalismo, en un culto sacralizado que, sumado al elemento militarista, resulta en...

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En la Antigüedad, Gibraltar fue tomado como faro natural y bisagra entre los dos grandes mares. Desde la fundación de su ciudad, hace catorce siglos, por su dominio se han enfrentado las potencias de cada época. Hace trescientos años que la bandera britán