Conversando Conmigo Mismo

"Economic hit men,"" John Perkins writes,"" are highly paid professionals who cheat countries around the globe out of trillions of dollars. Their tools include fraudulent financial reports, rigged elections, payoffs, extortion, sex, and murder. They play a game as old as Empire but one that has taken on terrifying dimensions during this time of globalization."" John Perkins should know-he was an economic hit man for an international consulting firm that worked to convince developing countries to accept enormous loans and to funnel that money to U.S. corporations. Once these countries were...

Profeta de nuestro tiempo nos acerca la biografía de un hombre, el jesuita Tomás Morales, en cuyo devenir histórico se amasan los aconteceres sociales y políticos, culturales y eclesiales más trascedentes de España en el siglo XX, convertidos en historia de gracia personal para él y para tantos seguidores suyos, paso del Señor reconocible y testificable por el cristiano de hoy. Es narración ágil, de estilo directo y preciso, que no cede a la laudatoria fácil ni arrincona las incógnitas y aristas del biografiado. Demuestra en su autor una profunda inmersión en las fuentes, una...

Frida Kahlo stepped into the limelight in 1929 when she married Mexican muralist Diego Rivera. She was twenty-two; he was forty-three. Hailed as Rivera’s exotic young wife who “dabbles in art,” she went on to produce brilliant paintings but remained in her husband’s shadow throughout her life. Today, almost six decades after her untimely death, Kahlo’s fame rivals that of Rivera and she has gained international acclaim as a path-breaking artist and a cultural icon. Cutting through “Fridamania,” this book explores Kahlo’s life, art, and legacies, while also scrutinizing the...

Escúchame, compréndelo, es imposible nuestro amor… «Si tú a alguien le entonas “Escúchame” y no te responde “compréndelo” es que no es de este planeta o no habla español». Dioni Así es, las canciones de Camela forman parte de la banda sonora de nuestras vidas. Veinticinco años grabando discos, miles de actuaciones, impresionantes cifras de ventas y una legión de «cameleros» avalan a Ángeles Muñoz y Dioni Martín. Solo les faltaba contar su propia historia, el secreto que les llevó desde su barrio de San Cristóbal, a convertirse en uno de los grupos que más discos...