PILARES DEL SOCIALISMO EN CUBA. La Revoluci—n

Valle Inclán lo explicó en los versos modernistas de La marquesa Rosalinda. A diferencia de Francia, aquí no volaban libremente tras los boscajes, ni furtivos besos del Trianón, ni las ideas de Voltaire y Rousseau: con los ramajes de los boscajes, aquí hacía hogueras la Inquisición. El atraso económico, a pesar del imperio, y la intolerancia, crearon condiciones extremas para que las luces arraigaran en España y no obstante el esfuerzo de reforma del absolutismo ilustrado hizo posible esa tarea casi heroica. Una minoría intelectual encontró una estructura de oportunidad en la...

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Cuando Felipe II encomendó en 1567 el gobierno de los Países Bajos a Fernando Álvarez de Toledo, III duque de Alba, el experimentado militar, de sesenta años de edad, se puso en camino hacia Bruselas con un cometido claro: castigar a los rebeldes que se habían alzado contra el rey el año anterior, perseguir la herejía protestante y modernizar las finanzas del país. Alba tuvo que bregar con burgomaestres y abades díscolos, con una población que observaba con temor a los soldados españoles veteranos llegados con el duque, y con las incursiones de los mendigos del mar, piratas...