Cerro Gordo

High in the Inyo Mountains, between Owens Valley and Death Valley National Park, lies the ghost town of Cerro Gordo. Discovered in 1865, this silver town boomed to a population of 3,000 people in the hands of savvy entrepreneurs during the 1870s. As the silver played out and the town faded, a few hung on to the dream. By the early 1900s, Louis D. Gordon wandered up the Yellow Grade Road where freight wagons once traversed with silver and supplies and took a closer look at the zinc ore that had been tossed aside by early miners. The Fat Hill lived again, primarily as a small company town. By...

En estas páginas (tomadas del libro Pasajeros de indias publicado por el FCE en 1999) se muestran las características de los navíos y las peripecias y tribulaciones que representaban los viajes trasatlánticos de Europa a América en el siglo XVI. Al conocer de cerca los barcos, las tripulaciones, las inclemencias y los tiempos de aquellas travesías, conoceremos mejor las circunstancias reales en las que se escribió nuestra historia.

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Entre las cosas que la historia de la anarquía en Sudamérica ha dejado hay una que ha quedado sucia de alquitrán y sangre. Es la historia de Marino Cortucci, brazo armado del grupo de Severino Di Giovanni. Oslvando Bayer, por incompetencia o ignorancia, ha ensuciado el honor de este hombre que ha debido soportar además de las torturas salvajes de la policía, la acusa de haber sido el infame que ha colaborado con la policía para el arresto de Di Giovanni y Scarfò. Viendo los documentos históricos era simple llegar a la misma conclusión a la que llegaron los miembros del grupo que...

Fernando del Paso tells his work experience as a translator, radio announcer and producer of radio shows of the Latin-American service of the BBC before and after the conflict between the United Kingdom and Argentina for the Falkland Islands. It reflexs upon the posture taken from both countries in front of the international community for the rightful sovereignty of the islands and the censorship measures about the subject in the media.