Caballeros en la frontera. La guardia morisca de los Reyes de Castilla (1410-1467)

Historias de grandeza y de debilidad, de astucia y de traición, de inocencia y de dignidad forman parte de nuestra gran historia, de todo eso que hizo de nosotros casi 400 millones de desposeídos.

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute...

Drug trafficking goes beyond organized crime. It is a way of life that has its own idols and even its own saints. Mexico's acclaimed journalist Jorge Fernandez Menendez unmasks the unavoidable presence of drug trafficking, its resources and organization, smuggling and weaponry, and its overall lack of control along the Mexican border. These elements, combined, constitute the alternate power to the State: The Other Authority.

En este libro se estudia la obra de cuatro hombres excepcionales del México colonial, que quisieron cambiar el rumbo de la Historia por medio de la escritura: Diego Muñoz Camargo, Hernando Alvarado Tezozómoc, Domingo Chimalpáhin y Fernando de Alva Ixtlilxóchitl. Como "hijos de los vencidos" comprendieron sagazmente que los nuevos tiempos pertenecían a las letras y no a las armas. Sus obras, estudiadas por vez primera en conjunto, suponen el gran esfuerzo seminal de los pueblos conquistados por recrear la historia de las principales regiones mesoamericanas en lo referente al pasado...