Esparta

Pilar Máynez presenta una selección de los textos, extraídos de la Historia general de las cosas de Nueva España de fray Bernardino de Sahagún, sobre las fiestas, los rituales y las supersticiones de los antiguos mexicanos. Ante la imaginación del lector desfilarán la indumentaria de los participantes en las ceremonias, sus formas de abstinencia y los diferentes sacrificios que hacían cada mes. Asimismo se enterará de cómo concebían el universo los antiguos mexicanos y del destino que les deparaba el signo calendárico de su nacimiento. El pensamiento mágico y la profunda...

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.

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Reuni n de trabajos, fruto del di logo y de las controversias que genera el estudio de fen menos culturales concretos entre los historiadores del mundo hisp nico de la Edad Moderna: el encuentro y simbiosis intelectual de dos mundos distantes y pr ximos a la vez.