Vaqueros, Oficiales de la ley y Forajidos

Las hijas de Juan shatters the silence surrounding experiences of incest within a working-class Mexican American family. Both a feminist memoir and a hopeful meditation on healing, it is Josie Méndez-Negrete’s story of how she and her siblings and mother survived years of violence and sexual abuse at the hands of her father. Méndez-Negrete was born in Mexico, in the state of Zacatecas. She recalls a joyous childhood growing up in the midst of Tabasco, a vibrant town filled with extended family. Her father, though, had dreams of acquiring wealth in el norte. He worked sun-up to sun-down in ...

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...

Un libro que habla del otro Perón, del íntimo, del humano, del hombre y su contexto, recorriendo anécdotas y momentos clave de la historia del peronismo y su líder.

Veinte años después de la aparición de Las mujeres en la guerra, libro de testimonios de diez mujeres involucradas en el conflicto colombiano desde orillas distintas —que aún se estudia en colegios y universidades—, Editorial Planeta lanza esta edición conmemorativa. Incluye las historias actualizadas de estas mujeres cuyas vidas, narradas con una sinceridad pasmosa por la periodista Patricia Lara Salive, retratan no solo sus motivaciones más profundas, sino los distintos porqués del conflicto.