José Alfredo Jiménez

Las hijas de Juan shatters the silence surrounding experiences of incest within a working-class Mexican American family. Both a feminist memoir and a hopeful meditation on healing, it is Josie Méndez-Negrete’s story of how she and her siblings and mother survived years of violence and sexual abuse at the hands of her father. Méndez-Negrete was born in Mexico, in the state of Zacatecas. She recalls a joyous childhood growing up in the midst of Tabasco, a vibrant town filled with extended family. Her father, though, had dreams of acquiring wealth in el norte. He worked sun-up to sun-down in ...

En las décadas que pasaron en la DEA, Javier Peña y Steve Murphy se dedicaron a la caza y captura de narcotraficantes, pero sin duda su mayor desafío fue Pablo Escobar, el cerebro del cartel de Medellín y responsable del tráfico de toneladas de cocaína a Estados Unidos y a Europa en las décadas de 1980 y 1990, así como de miles de asesinatos de competidores, policías y civiles para asegurarse el trono en el mundo de la droga. Entre julio de 1992 y diciembre de 1993 Steve y Javier, tras un riguroso entrenamiento físico y unas misiones tempranas en Miami y Austin, se instalaron en...

On October 13, 1909 was shot in Barcelona Francisco Ferrer Guardia, teacher, free-thinker and founder of a pedagogical renewal movement called Modern School. The murder, condemned by a military court in a contemptible process, became a new ""Dreyfus Affair"", which turned to side-clerical Catholic fanaticism and military repression.

Acclaimed around the world and a national best-seller, this is the definitive work on Che Guevara, the dashing rebel whose epic dream was to end poverty and injustice in Latin America and the developing world through armed revolution. Jon Lee Anderson's biography traces Che's extraordinary life, from his comfortable Argentine upbringing to the battlefields of the Cuban revolution, from the halls of power in Castro's government to his failed campaign in the Congo and assassination in the Bolivian jungle. Anderson has had unprecedented access to the personal archives maintained by Guevara's...