Historia secreta de la conquista de América

Describes the relationship between twentieth-century Mexican artists Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo, discussing the political, social, and cultural upheavals that impacted their relationship.

Las afinidades hacia la Monarquía del rey de España estuvieron en el centro de la capacidad de proyección y de la presencia imperial ibérica a lo largo del mundo. Estas afinidades permitieron articular una mayor potencia de influencia sobre los territorios y las sociedades exteriores a la Monarquía, generando actores políticos que la identificaron como su aliado natural en sus conflictos civiles, rebeldes que se quisieron apoyar en ella para resistir a los poderes constitutivos, familias que desarrollaron una relación clientelar con el poder ibérico hacia el que confluían sus...

Todas las guerras de liberación hunden sus raíces en la primera de todas ellas, la que los españoles libraron, hace exactamente dos siglos, contra los ejércitos de Napoleón. En 1807, el Emperador, embriagado por sus triunfos, lanza sus soldados a la conquista de la Península pensando que será un paseo militar: «Es un juego de niños, esa gente no sabe lo que es un ejército francés; créame, será rápido», declara. Seis años más tarde, 110.000 soldados franceses han encontrado la muerte en España o en Portugal, y la retirada termina ante las murallas de Toulouse. Es todo un...

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