Los retos de la Colombia contemporánea

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Los autores ponen foco sobre dos hechos que cambiaron la vida económica de la Vega de Granada en 1874, en que llegó a Granada el ferrocarril Bobadilla-Granada, construico por la Compañía de Ferrocarril de Córdoba a Málaga, luego Compañía de Ferrocarriles Andaluces, y en 1882, en que comenzó a producir azúcar el Ingenio de San Juan, primera fábrica de azúcar de remolacha de España. Un ferrocarril de este a oeste de la Vega que enlazaba con toda la red de ferrocarriles y una gran industria con grandes efectos multiplicadores que necesitaba de este ferrocarrill para movilizar...

"Se ha dicho que en Grecia nos encontramos con obras hechas por hombres de nuestra misma especie. Y es muy cierto, si con ello se pretende indicar la especial consonancia del hombre occidental con la Hélade. El mundo griego fue la cuna de Occidente, la primera semilla de la que germinó nuestro propio mundo. Cuando se estudia su legado, lo hacemos con una actitud muy distinta de la que tomaríamos si estudiáramos el antiguo Egipto, la civilización china, o la milenaria cultura hindú. Porque a pesar de la distancia que nos separa de ellos, comprendemos casi connaturalmente los valores de...