Al otro lado de la ficción

The poetic birth of Cuba, and of the character of its culture, might be found in a phrase placed in the mouth of an aborigine of the island and included in a book by the Cuban writers Cintio Vitier and Fina Garcia Marruz, who traced and assembled such outbursts of inadvertent poetry. As is well known, the Spaniards arrived in America by way of the Antilles, which have always formed a sort of aquatic frontier of the continent. In addition to a thirst for gold, the peculiar geography of the area awakened another obsession in Christopher Columbus and his followers that was to last for years: to...

A veces, los desafíos de la vida son mayores que el valor y las fuerzas disponibles. Entonces sólo ayuda algo: Cerrar los ojos y adelante. Y cuando los abres de nuevo, la vida es, de pronto, más bella.

The life of Ingrid Bergman (1915–1982) is as compelling as that of any of the women she portrayed in dozens of unforgettable movies and plays—a list that includes Casablanca, Intermezzo, Gaslight, The Bells of St. Mary's, Notorious, Anastasia, and Hedda Gabler. Hers is a story that begins with a tragic childhood in Sweden, then moves on to the nightmare of Germany under the Nazis and later to Hollywood in its golden age. From her position as America's most beautiful, admired, and loved actress, she was plunged into national disgrace and branded "an apostle of degradation" for her...

En la actualidad las empresas deben adquirir una responsabilidad más allá de lo exigido por ley. Con su actividad pueden incurrir en riesgos, que denominamos morales, como resultado de acciones que pueden provocar perjuicios a terceros, probablemente porque existen asimetrías de información, poder, confianza y temporalidad. El trabajo desarrollado en este libro, contrastado en la empresa Mutualia, confirma que se puede gestionar el riesgo moral mediante el modelo de compliance moral. En la práctica, este modelo facilita la mejora de la reputación y las relaciones de la organización con ...