Retales de mi vida

Biografía completa del primer Almirante del mar océano, basada en las fuentes historiográficas y en las obras de los mejores especialistas de nuestro tiempo en temas colombinos. Desde las diversas teorías acerca de su lugar de origen, hasta las andanzas postreras de sus restos mortales, se va desarrollando la trama de la vida del hombre que fue Colón: soñador y realista, místico y mercader, exaltado y lleno de euforia unas veces, deprimido y pesimista otras, con altibajos como todos nosotros. Pero no es tan sólo la figura de Colón la que aparece aquí; como fondo del cuadro se...

En uno de esos Pueblos Originarios, un niño que ahora es un hombre llega con una luz de esperanza para cambiar la mirada de niños humildes y transformarlos en hombres de bien.

In the year I was born and in Africa in 1984, Mobutu already had more than USD $ 15 billion in his personal fortune derived from the trafficking of Congo's natural resources, which he renamed Zaire (the name of his beloved mother). ). That same year, the gross domestic product of France was USD 532,339 million, with a growth of USD $ 30,160 million compared to the previous year, 1983. Mobutu Sese Seko, during his 32 years of power, became the most powerful and dangerous fool in the world, and above all, the richest. Being benevolent in the estimates and taking into account some other...

From the author of the critically acclaimed Fruit of the Drunken Treecomes a dazzling, kaleidoscopic memoir about liberating herself fromWestern notions of fact and fiction to reclaim her family's otherworldlylegacy. For Ingrid Rojas Contreras, magic runs in the family. Growing up in theColombia of the 1980's and 1990's in a house where "what did you dream?"was asked in place of "how are you?" her world was laced with prophecy andviolence. Her maternal grandfather, Nono, was a renowned curandero, acommunity healer gifted with the ability to talk to the dead, tell the future, curethe sick, and ...