Sol y Moscas

"This is a story about how I was saved by love at a time when most people considered me beyond rescue," begins Victor Rivas Rivers in this powerful chronicle of how he escaped the war zone of domestic violence -- too often regarded as a "private family matter" -- and went on to become a good man, a film star, and a prominent activist. The Cuban-born author begins by recalling when he was kidnapped, along with three of his siblings, by his own father, who abandoned Victor's pregnant mother and took the children on a cross-country hell-ride that nearly ended in a fatal collision. This journey...

Famoso es el exabrupto con que cierto eclesiástico retrató a su contemporánea, la Madre Teresa de Jesús: «Fémina inquieta y andariega» Sin proponérselo, trazó una estupenda, aunque sucinta, biografía de la monja abulense. Santa Teresa siempre ha sido considerada como prototipo del auténtico feminismo; su inquietud la hacia progresar sin tregua en una apasionante experiencia de la vida cristiana, y lo de andariega se refería a sus incansables correrías apostólicas por amor de Cristo, su místico Esposo. Después de este mínimo per-fil biográfico -trazado en vida de la propia...

A look to the world of the drug trafficker's lawyers, from Colombia to the United States. They are men and women that have pursuits and a family life, just like everybody else. Ricardo Ravelo, presents us a detailed portrait of those who defend the most well-known drug dealers of Colombia and Mexico who have faced trials in the United States.The facts here narrated are harsh and unpublished, but absolutely real, although they may seem to be the result of the most audacious imagination. No one will be surprised to see the name of Colombian lawyer Gustavo Salazar, advocate of Pablo Escobar; of...

17 personajes destacados en el arte y en el gobierno. Común denominador: la muerte aparece a su lado en un momento inoportuno. Hombres que dejaron huella en el cine, en las letras, en la danza, en la música, que provocaron un cambio con su forma de gobierno. Artistas como García Lorca, James Dean, Nijinsky, Fassbinder, Yukio Mishima, Freddie Mercury, Jorge Cuesta, Guty Cárdenas, Brandon Lee. Un homenaje en agradecimiento a su legado. "A partir de Equilibrio 1, me leo todo lo que escribe Gilda, me bebo sus libros como el agua porque están bien escritos, algunos son simpáticos y otros muy ...