La sabiduría en Preamérica

El presente volumen, compilado a partir de un seminario de graduados impartido en el Center for Latin American Studies de la Universidad de Florida, reúne diversos ensayos y ponencias del historiador Germán Carrera Damas que analizan las perversiones que a lo largo de la historia, y en el presente venezolano, han asaltado al culto a Bolívar. El autor sostiene que, desde Páez a Guzmán Blanco, desde Gómez hasta Chávez, se ha recurrido a la figura de El Libertador convirtiendo el bolivarianismo en un fundamentalismo, en un culto sacralizado que, sumado al elemento militarista, resulta en...

Hombres, plantas y animales perecieron en uno de los mayores desastres ecológicos del mundo. Volver de las cenizas para reconstruir un mundo de paz y de justicia fue el eco que comenzó a recorrer América en leyendas y mitos milenarios. Y aún en el siglo XXI Urabá y el Caribe colombiano siguen siendo centro de tragedias humanitarias solo comparables a esta del siglo XVI. Ahora no es por el oro y la civilización: esta vez es por la tierra y la democracia. Ahora no son la espada, el arcabuz y las lombardas; esta vez es la motosierra, los fusiles de repetición y la metralleta. Pero el...

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute...