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This is the untold story of the American federal agent who captured the world's most wanted drug lord. Every generation has its larger-than-life criminal legend living beyond the reach of the law: Billy the Kid, Al Capone, Ronnie Biggs, Pablo Escobar. But for every one of these criminals, there's a Wyatt Earp, Pat Garrett or Slipper of the Yard. For Joaquín Archivaldo Guzmán-Loera, aka 'El Chapo' - the 21st century's most notorious criminal - that man is DEA Special Agent Cole Merrell.

El Narco is the story of the ultraviolent criminal organizations that have turned huge areas of Mexico into a combat zone. It is a piercing portrait of a drug trade that turns ordinary men into mass murderers, as well as a diagnosis of what drives the cartels and what gives them such power. Veteran Mexico correspondent Ioan Grillo traces the gangs from their origins as smugglers to their present status as criminal empires.

In Dreams of El Dorado, H. W. Brands tells the thrilling, panoramic story of the settling of the American West. He takes us from John Jacob Astor's fur trading outpost in Oregon to the Texas Revolution, from the California gold rush to the Oklahoma land rush. He shows how the migrants' dreams drove them to feats of courage and perseverance that put their stay-at-home cousins to shame - and how those same dreams also drove them to outrageous acts of violence against indigenous peoples and one another. El Dorado was at least as elusive in the West as it ever was in the East.

From the author of The Last Testament comes the true love of Bonnie Prince Charlie, her adventures in America, and her lasting legacy. In the popular genre trail-blazed by Antonia Fraser and Phillippa Gregory, The Pretender's Lady, Alan Gold's meticulously researched novel, accurately opens history's pages on a peerless woman who helped change the course of history and whose legend lives on in Scotland today - Flora MacDonald.

"Una cuenta de Twitter quiere acabar con los mitos de la Historia de México", así describió El País a Enrique Ortiz, mejor conocido como Tlatoani Cuauhtémoc, divulgador de la historia que revela los detalles más atrevidos y los hechos más increíbles de la cultura que habitó el Valle de México y que se transformó radicalmente después de la Conquista.

This thought-provoking book examines gang history in the region encompassing West Texas, Southern New Mexico, and Northern Chihuahua, Mexico. Known as the El Paso-Juárez borderland region, the area contains more than three million people spanning 130 miles from east to west. Mike Tapia examines this region by exploring a century of historical developments through a criminological lens and by studying the diverse subcultures on both sides of the law.

El Dorado, La Vigencia del Mito desentierra la historia oculta detrás del mito más persistente de América: la ciudad perdida de oro que nunca existió, pero que cambió el destino de un continente. Desde las primeras expediciones de conquistadores enloquecidos hasta las obsesiones modernas por riquezas efímeras, este libro revela cómo una leyenda alimentó cinco siglos de codicia, violencia y destrucción.

At the center of the current immigration debate are migrants from Central America fleeing poverty, corruption, and violence in search of refuge in the United States. In Central America’s Forgotten History, Aviva Chomsky answers the urgent question “How did we get here?” Centering the centuries-long intertwined histories of US expansion and indigenous and Central American struggles against inequality and oppression, Chomsky highlights the pernicious cycle of colonial and neocolonial development policies.

Explore la cautivadora historia y mitología de tres civilizaciones antiguas.

Born in Los Angeles, the gang MS-13 was founded in the 1980s by Salvadoran refugees who had been hardened in a civil war stoked by American foreign policy. Foreign correspondent William Wheeler tracks MS-13 from LA, where he meets the founders of the gang, to El Salvador, where three generations of Salvadorans have been drawn into an escalating cycle of conflict. State of War tells the tragic story of a brutal civil war that has never ended.

La casa blanca es la metáfora del patio trasero del Estado que nos adentra en las consecuencias de la tortura sexual en la voz de tres sobrevivientes. Es ese espacio fuera de la ley de un sistema que fabrica culpables y que queda expuesto en la investigación de una periodista y la rebelión frente al Estado del perito que las entrevistó.

James B. Mills has left no stone unturned in his 20-year quest to tell the complete story of Billy the Kid. He explores the Kid’s disputable origins, his family’s migration from New York into the Southwest, and how he became an orphan, as well as his involvement in the Lincoln County War, his outlaw exploits, and his dealings with Governor Lew Wallace. Mills illuminates the Kid’s relationships with his enemies, lovers, and numerous friends to contextualize the man’s character beyond his death and legacy.

Alongside the famous Lost City of Atlantis, perhaps no mythological city has captured the imaginations of people or been the source for exploration quite like El Dorado, the fabled city of gold that the Spanish believed was located somewhere in South America.

Cada fin de año, en México nos da por pensar en el pasado y en el futuro, en lo que hicimos mal y en lo que podemos mejorar “si Dios y la Virgen quieren”. Esta emoción de abrir y cerrar ciclos viene con una fuerte carga cultural y simbólica relacionada con nuestros ritos y supersticiones: barrer la casa, pasear con maletas, comer doce uvas…

Comenzando en su ciudad natal de Nueva Orleans, Clint Smith nos guía en un inolvidable recorrido por monumentos y lugares emblemáticos que ofrecen una historia intergeneracional de cómo la esclavitud ha sido fundamental para dar forma a la historia colectiva de Estados Unidos y sus habitantes.La historia de la plantación de Monticello, en Virginia, la finca donde Thomas Jefferson escribió cartas en las que defendía la urgente necesidad de libertad mientras esclavizaba a más de cuatrocientas personas.

Tras un largo período sabático, Ubay decide retomar su profesión de fisioterapeuta y comenzar un nuevo proyecto en otro rincón del planeta. En esta...

Argentina tiene una historia larga y compleja. Durante cientos de años, Argentina estuvo habitada por grupos de cazadores-recolectores. En su mayor parte, estos grupos de personas se llevaban bien entre sí. Con el tiempo, el Imperio inca ascendió y se apoderó de las comunidades argentinas una por una. Los españoles llegaron unos veinte años después, trayendo una nueva ola de invasión a los habitantes nativos. El pueblo argentino no declararía su independencia hasta 1816, y después se enfrentó a una guerra civil tras otra.

In the harrowing words of this compelling narrative, delve into the tragic events that unfolded on December 11 and 12, 1981, in the remote village of El Mozote. Uncover the untold stories of the courageous individuals who faced unimaginable brutality, caught in the crossfire of a war that scarred a nation. This book is a journey through the darkest chapters of history, exploring the resilience of the human spirit against the backdrop of unspeakable atrocities.

En 1560, una expedición española liderada por el noble Pedro de Ursúa y el violento Lope de Aguirre se adentró en el Amazonas en busca de El Dorado, la legendaria ciudad de oro. Pero lo que comenzó como una misión de conquista se convirtió en una pesadilla de locura, traición y muerte. Hambre, enfermedades y la hostilidad de la selva desquiciaron a los hombres, llevándolos al borde de la humanidad. Aguirre, consumido por el resentimiento, encabezó un motín sangriento, proclamándose ”La Ira de Dios” y declarando la guerra a España.

Because of our shared English language, as well as the celebrated origin tales of the Mayflower and the rebellion of the British colonies, the United States has prized its Anglo heritage above all others. However, as Carrie Gibson explains with great depth and clarity in El Norte, the nation has much older Spanish roots - ones that have long been unacknowledged or marginalized. The Hispanic past of the United States predates the arrival of the Pilgrims by a century, and has been every bit as important in shaping the nation as it exists today.