Memorias de esperanza: las luchas de las mujeres en la guerra civil de Guatemala

Los trabajos reunidos en este volumen examinan la experiencia vivida de sujetos que haciendo justicia- administrándola, suplicando por ella, reclamándola o imaginándola- en escenarios y periodos diversos, retratan la profunda unidad que liga el quehacer judicial- lego, letrado, civil, militar o eclesiástico- con la historia de la organiadión política de los territorios del Río de la Plata desde 1580 hasta finales del siglo XIX.'

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In 1839, French writer and activist Flora Tristán traveled to London to observe firsthand the capital of the first modern industrial nation in the world. In Promenades dans Londres, she recounts the four months she spent visiting both those areas of the city the tourists avoided (and a few places she could only enter disguised as a man)—workshops and brothels, working-class neighborhoods and factories, asylums and jails—as well as the haunts of the bourgeoisie: Parliament, the horse races at Ascot, and private clubs. Her resulting diatribe against the inequalities she witnessed, and the...

La complejidad del mundo en que vivimos nos hace fabular para intentar comprender algo de nuestra existencia (ciudadanos normales, politicos, etc.). Como decia Ortega y Gasset: "Yo soy yo y mis circunstancias". Procuremos colocar el anzuelo aparente y será posible capturar un buen pez. Hemos procurado dar un repaso a nuestra historia, pues según una máxima: "Solo quien bien conoce la tradición está preparado para modelar el futuro", y recordemos otro dicho de Soren: "La vida solo puede ser comprendida mirando para atrás, pero solo puede ser vivida mirando hacia delante". Un tema que...