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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute...

As a young man, Ramon Perez aka Tianguis interrupted his studies and elisted in a burgeoning guerrilla movement to reclaim his people to ancestral communal lands in the mountains of Oaxaca, Mexico. From the grassroots organizing conducted by the peasants to the power of regional and national politicians to enforce their social order with pistoleros -- through Tianguis' unwavering account we experience the struggle and its consequences. The pursuit of Guiero Medrano -- and of Tianguis and his friends -- is unremitting; there is no escape as they flee through the forests, small towns, and...

Para acudir a la liberación de Chile, a mediados de 1815 José Miguel Carrera concibió la idea de viajar a Estados Unidos con el ánimo de conseguir apoyo para la causa emancipadora. Estando en ese país Carrera se entrevistó con el Presidente James Madison, y con numerosas otras personas, encumbradas o modestas, con quienes se encontró durante su estadía. Pese a su desconocimiento del idioma, de su absoluta carencia de fondos y de la política neutralista que había asumido la nación del norte, Carrera logró montar allí una expedición con varias naves en las que transportó una...