La naturaleza de las Indias Nuevas

No es casualidad que este libro se titule El final de la Dictadura y no Historia de la Transición. Es así porque durante los meses en que discurre este relato a lo que asistimos es al final de una Dictadura, cuyo momento de ruptura acontece cuando se legalizan los partidos y sindicatos, se reconocen las libertades políticas, se acepta la amnistía y se celebran elecciones libres a Cortes constituyentes. Y todo esto sucede no en 1975, a la muerte del dictador sino en Junio de 1977, como consecuencia del previo derrumbe del gobierno Arias Navarro y cuando se impone la necesidad de implantar...

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Los textos aquí reunidos surgen del simposio "Los 'teatros' de la memoria: dinámicas y tensiones", convocado en el marco del VI Congreso de Arqueología en Colombia -celebrado en Santa Marta, en el 2010- por el Observatorio del Patrimonio Cultural y Arqueológico (OPCA) del Departamento de Antropología de la Universidad de los Andes. En este evento se instaba a reflexionar sobre la memoria tomando como punto de partida los museos, parques temáticos (arqueológicos, culturales, naturales), festivales, etc., entendidos como espacios privilegiados de análisis, en tanto "teatros" en los que...

Crash landing in San Sabestián, Spain in 1945, SS-Standartenführer Léon Joseph Marie Ignace Degrelle (1906-1994) narrowly escaped death from his native Belgium and the Allied forces. Stripped of his Belgian citizenship and sentenced to death in absentia for his part in the German side of WWII, Degrelle lived the rest of his life in exile in Spain, harbored unofficially by Franco's government. During these forty-nine years in exile, Degrelle never expressed any regret for his place in the war, nor did he remain silent as fantastic narratives were woven about the events of the war and the...