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Pintor, diseñador, creador de objetos extraños, autor y cineasta, Dalí se convirtió en el más famoso de los surrealistas. Buñuel, Lorca, Picasso y Breton tuvieron una gran influencia en su vida artística. La película de Dalí, Un perro andaluz, que produjo Buñuel, marcó su entrada oficial en el cerrado grupo de los surrealistas parisinos, donde conoció a Gala, la mujer que se convertiría en su compañera de toda la vida y en su fuente...
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This book documents the transition of a 20-year-old farm boy who had never been far from home to a world traveler who was comfortable in any situation in Latin America. It follows him through training in Puerto Rico, where he had difficulty leaning to speak Spanish. He learned enough Spanish to be sworn in as a Peace Corps Volunteer and an airline ticket to El Salvador. After a brief orientation in San Salvador, he was sent to Sonsonate where he was...
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A severe social and political crisis in El Salvador during the 1970s resulted in widespread disturbance of daily life, political violence, repression and the outbreak of an insurgency. In March 1981, the government ran a large sweep operation along the border with Honduras in the north, accompanied by the use of scorched earth tactics and indiscriminate killing of anyone captured. A second offensive, launched in November 1981, was conducted in a similar...
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When the world held its breath It is more than 25 years since the end of the Cold War. It began over 75 years ago, in 1944 long before the last shots of the Second World War had echoed across the wastelands of Eastern Europe with the brutal Greek Civil War. The battle lines are no longer drawn, but they linger on, unwittingly or not, in conflict zones such as Syria, Somalia and Ukraine. In an era of mass-produced AK-47s and ICBMs, one such flashpoint...
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A severe social and political crisis in El Salvador during politicians, religious figures and activists through strikes but organized the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (FMNL) and launched an armed insurrection against the government in early 1981.
Within months, the FMLN established itself in control over two departments – which it was to guerrilla's support base in the countryside. Although bombardments, strafing, shelling, summary...
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Waterfront Cities of the World volume 5
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First capital of Brazil, Bahia remains at the heart of the rich fusion behind Afro-Brazilian culture.
9) 20th Century's Most Influential Artists: The Lives and Art of Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dali, Andy War
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In their biography of Pablo Picasso, Hans Ludwig and Chris Jaffe note that "for him, art was always adventure: 'To find is the thing.'" Indeed, there is perhaps no artist who produced more art than Picasso, whose enormous oeuvre (which spanned most of his 91-year life) contained a countless number of paintings and drawings. Picasso also worked in other mediums as well, notably sculpture and lithography, and his constant experimentation with form makes...
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La entidad cuantitativa del crimen de violencia sexual contra las mujeres en el conflicto armado de El Salvador (1980-1992), en la experiencia del Tribunal Internacional para la Aplicación de la Justicia Restaurativa 2009-2019, nos enfrenta a la evidencia de un crimen oculto de espectro impresionante, que bien pudo afectar a millares de mujeres salvadoreñas, consideradas enemigas por los agentes del Estado antes y durante el conflicto armado.
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11) síndrome del caballero blanco y de la dama blanca: Cómo dejar de ser el salvador de tu pareja y s
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El síndrome del caballero blanco es un término psicológico que se usa para describir a aquellas personas que tienen una tendencia compulsiva a involucrarse en relaciones afectivas con personas que perciben como vulnerables, necesitadas o emocionalmente heridas, con el fin de salvarlas, ayudarlas y solucionar sus problemas. El término proviene de la imagen icónica de un caballero medieval que rescata a una doncella en apuros. Estas personas suelen...
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