Quejas de Amor de Un Montuno (Classic Reprint)

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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...

"Inventario de los libros que han tenido ingreso en la secretaría de la Real academía," 1922-29, with v. 83, 85, 87, 89, 91-92, 96, 99.

Mujeres protagonistas de la historia y mujeres borradas de ella; mujeres que sueñan y mujeres castigadas por soñar; mujeres que sobreviven y mujeres que nos ayudan a sobrevivir. Las mujeres que atraviesan los relatos de Eduardo Galeano conmueven por su determinación, su desobediencia constante, y también por su fragilidad. Galeano cuenta la intensidad de personajes femeninos tensionados por el peso de una causa, como Juana de Arco, Rosa Luxemburgo, Rigoberta Menchú, Eva Perón o las Madres de Plaza de Mayo; por su propia hermosura o talento, como Marilyn Monroe o Rita Hayworth, Frida...