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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...

Venezuela ha dependido, desde su nacimiento, de la influencia del personalismo. Encumbrada sobre las instituciones, sobre las urgencias de la economía y las propuestas de los intelectuales, la voluntad de un hombre poderoso y usualmente armado hasta los dientes ha determinado la marcha de la sociedad sin encontrar mayores resistencias, o contando con masivo entusiasmo. Para los venezolanos ha sido una vivencia recurrente la sujeción a una cadena de reyezuelos, hasta el punto de que pueda explicarse un extenso tramo de su historia como un hábito de prosternación, como el traspaso de los...

Título: “El Pórtico del Cabildo de Córdoba“. Autor: Federico G. Bordese. Editor: Revista del Archivo Fotográfico de Córdoba. Año: abril de 2012.