Comandante Ramiro

A biography of South America's great soldier and patriot who sacrificed his prestige, money, and life for the independence of South America from Spanish rule.

From the candid listeners of his beginning as the jubilant and Mediterranean singer, more than five decades have passed. Many of Joan Manuel Serrat's songs are stuck in the memory of various generations. They have become hymns and luminous landscapes in our lives, of dreams and desires that have crossed between singer and audience. The author understands the true universality of an artist is always rooted in his origins. Starting at Serrat's own chronicles as a child, in a melting pot neighborhood, mixed like his own Catalan and Aragon family, it tells the story of a singer that transformed...

This true story tells how twenty years after British troops died for democracy in the Falklands War, a British citizen would be forced to flee the Falklands to escape political corruption and death threats, to seek democracy and freedom of speech in Argentina. When a British biologist dared to connect the starvation of 5 million penguins to commercial fishing that was making the Falklands elite rich, a deadly game of cat and mouse was unleashed. Bungled attempts to deport, imprison and kill Bingham, landed the Falkland Islands Government in the Supreme Court, which ruled that the Governor,...

Jorge Semprún tiene quince años y se halla en París, internado desde hace pocos meses en el célebre liceo Henry IV, cuando el ejército franquista toma Madrid. Atrás han quedado sus fugaces pero indelebles recuerdos de infancia, en especial los veranos de Santander y Lekeitio: los juegos entre hermanos en el jardín, los poemas que el padre recita al anochecer, la muerte de la madre, la visita al abuelo Antonio Maura... El estallido de la guerra civil española en 1936 había provocado el exilio de su familia republicana, primero en La Haya y luego en París. Semprún comienza entonces a ...