Sublime

That same morning Henry Flagler, now eighty-two, left his home, Whitehall, in Palm Beach. He was frail and his sight was failing, but nothing was about to stop him. Not after spending $12 million on a series of hotels, $18 million on his land-based railroad, and another $20 million or more on his “railroad across the sea.” On this day he would boar

Árbenz empezó a preocuparse con otro problema: el Ejército. Aquella propaganda tenía que servir para que los enemigos internos de la revolución comenzaran a tentar al Ejército, a socavar su lealtad con el gobierno, a conspirar para producir un golpe de Estado. ¿Iba a dirigirlo el pobre Cara de Hacha? Imposible. Nadie lo respetaba en las Fuerzas Arm

Harriman was a truly remarkable man, one of the most brilliant railroaders and formidable capitalists in American history, whose genius has been somewhat masked behind a partially deserved reputation for shady dealing.

In 1946 the Truman administration appointed a Puerto Rican as governor, Muñoz Marín’s colleague Jesús T. Piñero. In 1948, Congress allowed Puerto Ricans to elect their own governor. Muñoz Marín won easily, and he would keep the position until 1964. Now, holding the highest political office in the colony, he could move Puerto Rico down the new polit