Fantasía en la UAL

."la conquista armada de Mexico le costaria mas dolores de cabeza al Caudillo que beneficios. Para que querria conquistar por la fuerza an pais que hace mucho pertenece a Estados Unidos en materia economica y cultural?" Jairo Calixto Albarran-periodista, Excelsior; analista politico.

The book studies the relation between the avant-garde and graphic humour in two critical historical periods: the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) and the early years of the Cuban Revolution (1959-1961). It focuses on the so-called war magazines in Spain on the Republican side (No Veas, Trincheras, and LEsquella de la Torratxa,among others) and the Francoist side (Vértice and La Ametralladora). In the part devoted to Cuba, the analysis covers the newspaper Revolución and the avant-garde humour magazine El Pitirre, which ran simultaneously to the cultural supplement Lunes de Revolución and...

Presents English definitions of over four thousand Spanish language idioms and colloquialisms, grouped according to Spanish key word, and includes example sentences, matching English expressions, and a Spanish-English index.

More than five hundred color and black-and-white photographs, accompanied by incisive essays and commentary, capture the rich history, cultural diversity, people, monuments, and landscapes of the island nation of Cuba.