Mexican War

A work by the great Henry David Thoreau, originally published in 1849 as "Resistance to Civil Government". It is an essay in which Thoreau argues that individuals should not permit governments to overrule or atrophy their consciences, and that they have a duty to avoid allowing such acquiescence to enable the government to make them the agents of injustice. Thoreau was motivated in part by his disgust with slavery and the Mexican-American War (1846-1848).

The legend of Francisco Villa is full of heroism, tragedy and romance. It is the story of a poor farmer boy who became a bandit out of necessity, after avenging an injustice on his family; a military genius who flew from an oppressive government to lead the largest revolutionary army in his country's history, and defeated dictatorship to become Mexico's liberator, only to fall again in disgrace when his troops abandoned him or were massacred by the enemy.

There are more than one hundred castles in the Americas. Virtually all of them were built between the late nineteenth and mid-twentieth centuries as recreational homes for tycoons, amusement parks or tourist destinations, in republics that had long ago severed their ties with monarchies. Among the plethora of castles in North and South America, only one can be called a true historic castle, where viceroys and monarchs once lived: Chapultepec Castle, in Mexico City. The top of Chapultepec Hill, once a sacred place for the Mexica, occupies an infinitesimal fraction of Mexican territory, but ...

Militar, político y estadista mexicano, fue presidente de México entre 1934 y 1940, tiempo en el que destacó, entre otras cosas, por la reforma agraria y la creación de los "ejidos" en el sector agropecuario mexicano, la nacionalización de los recursos del subsuelo, en especial, del petróleo y por haber brindado asilo político a los exiliados españoles durante la guerra civil.

Fue un importantísimo político y empresario mexicano que participó en la segunda etapa de la Revolución Mexicana tras el asesinato de Francisco Madero, con el que logró derrocar al gobierno usurpador de Victoriano Huerta, encargándose del Poder Ejecutivo desde 1914 a 1920, año en que fue asesinado por tropas del general Rodolfo Herrero.

Un audiolibro que pretende resumir las vidas de los héroes más importantes de la gesta emancipadora de la nación mexicana. Así, hombres como Venustiano Carranza, Alvaro Obregón, Emiliano Zapata, Francisco Madero, Pancho Villa, y muchos más, tienen cabida en este material que le aseguramos, le gustará de principio a fin.