Shortly after joining Aguinaldo's army as a young medic, Jose R. Lugay greets his country's independence from Spain with bright dreams of the future. He marries his childhood sweetheart. Only a few months later, the dogs of war rip his dreams to tatters. A harrowing year with the defenders in the Philippine-American War follows. After the war is lost, he spends five years seeking lucrative employment as a doctor in Manila, without much success. Did his refusal to pledge allegiance to the new colonizer affect his prospects? He accepts a post as a country doctor in Guiuan, Samar, a remote town in the country's most depressed province. Ten years of a hardscrabble life there seem about to be followed by ten more. Then the Warays choose him to fill one of Samar's three seats in the country's House of Representatives. His return to Manila as a distinguished Congressman must be the peak of his career, but two terms as a legislator leave him wondering if it isn't actually a diversion from his true calling. Should he stay in the House, or run for the Senate, or become the eminent Manila doctor he had once aspired to be?
This book aims to examinate the colombian legal and jurisprudential framework related to the communication surveillance of today''s technologies. Phrased in the form of hypothesis, the purpose is to demonstrate how intelligence-related laws and jurisprudence fail to ensure that potentially affected rights remain intact.
Mojiganga retorna a la Centroamérica convulsa y alucinante de la década de 1980 y reconstruye un caso real convertido en un juego de máscaras literarias sobre la relación entre el poder político y el poder de la ficción. La Cuba de Fidel Castro, el Panamá del general Torrijos y la guerrilla salvadoreña se encuentran en la mirada crepuscular del novelista inglés Graham Greene y cobran vida bajo la sombra omnipresente de la CIA y de la Guerra Fría. Homenaje a la novela de espías y al género policíaco clásico, Mojiganga obtuvo en Panamá el Premio Centroamericano de Literatura Rogelio Sinán. El jurado, presidido por la escritora mexicana Ana Clavel, le concedió el galardón "por la apuesta narrativa de una obra con un poderoso simbolismo sobre la naturaleza de la vida y el poder, contada con destreza literaria, con personajes históricos y ficticios sólidos y complejos, en una trama estupendamente urdida. La novela posee asimismo un tono de intensidad dramática y poética con el cual confecciona un mundo ficticio que se debate entre el ser y el parecer, para construir una metáfora de los tiempos fársicos que corren".