Vida, confesion y muerte de Efrain Gonzalez:

Una biografía que nos presenta a un personaje histórico que ha quedado relegado, y cuya personalidad tiene mucho que ver con los cimientos de nuestra identidad como país. De Joaquín Suárez los uruguayos conocemos su abnegación y patriotismo, por aquella vieja frase de que “a la madre no se le llevan cuentas”, cuando se rehusó a recibir la devolución de las enormes sumas de su fortuna personal que había entregado a la Cruzada libertadora de 1825 y al gobierno de la Defensa de Montevideo. Sin embargo, la memoria historiográfica lo tiene un poco olvidado, desdibujándose su enorme...

This book is a history of the kidnapping of Juan Manuel Fangio, Argentine quintuple champion of Fórmula 1. This world-famous event was perpetrated by a little group of July 26 Movement’s members in 1958, the day before the Big Prize of Cuba, due February 23. Also, the book presents publications in the Cuban and foreign press about this extraordinary event that gave to Fangio more fame that all his sportive successes. The kidnapping carried out the revel’s objective: to make the world know about their struggle for knock down the bloody dictatorship in Cuba. In the appendix appears the...

A birth that doesn't go as expected; a kid diagnosed with an incurable disease that keeps her in bed for more than a year; a teenage girl attacked by a stranger while strolling around the countryside; a woman that escapes a fatal accident by a hair's breadth. These are some of the episodes that are collected in this astonishing and intimate memoir: seventeen grazes with death, as the author calls them, that could have ended up in disaster.

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