Nueve Semanas

A Colombian politician kidnapped by the FARC guerilla group recounts her daily life in the jungle, where she has been locked up, tortured, and tormented by several leaders of the group.

Preaching, according to Bonhoeffer, is like offering an apple to child. The gospel is proclaimed, but for it to be received as gift depends on whether or not the hearer is in a position to do so. Offered here are thirty-one of Pastor Bonhoeffer's sermons, in new English translations, which he preached at various times of the year and in a variety of different settings. Each is introduced by Bonhoeffer translator Isabel Best who also provides a brief biography of Bonhoeffer. The foreword is by Victoria J. Barnett, general editor of the Dietrich Bonhoeffer Works, English edition, published by...

Tango, trips, Paris, the United States, victory, women, feuds, friends and naturally, Buenos Aires are some of the issues that Oscar mentions in this moving and peculiar biography. There are numerous photographs and appendixes that cover all his works.

"Juan Carlos Jara es poeta, historiador y ensayista. Como poeta, ha optado –según la enseñanza de Homero Manzi– por "no ser hombre de letras" sino "hacer letras para los hombres". Trabajador infatigable, Jara descubre perlas luminosas sumergiéndose en lo profundo de las aguas, desinteresado de las glorias efímeras, jugando sus cartas a la suerte del pueblo, en cuya experiencia nutre su poesía y su prosa militante. Y hace todo ello dando ejemplo de modestia, de sencillez, sin "pegar codazos" para ponerse primero en las fotografías. ¿Quién mejor, entonces, que Juan Carlos Jara para...