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Medea me cantó un corrido es la deslumbrante nueva obra de Dahlia de la Cerda, tras el éxito apabullante obtenido en México con Perras de reserva y Desde los zulos. La autora crea un paisaje literario único, característico de su estilo original, donde las protagonistas se enfrentan a situaciones límite, inmersas en un fuego cruzado entre la violencia del crimen organizado, el Ejército y los conflictos de padres, familias o parejas provenientes de estos entornos. Sin embargo, como dice una de ellas parafraseando a Sartre: «No somos lo que hicieron de nosotras, sino lo que hacemos con lo que hicieron de nosotras». Por fortuna, en esta ocasión contarán con la ayuda de Medea, el personaje mitológico, que aparecerá «toda vestida de negro, con unas trenzas africanas muy perritas» para auxiliar a las protagonistas, ya sea en abortos o en el término de relaciones abusivas similares a la que ella vivió con Jasón. En estas páginas conviven situaciones delirantes y sumamente divertidas que discurren en compañía de una banda sonora de fondo plagada de corridos tumbados, cumbias, y ritmos de perreo. Dahlia de la Cerda se sirve de un lenguaje propio, música y humor negro para compartir con sus lectoras la existencia de las memorables protagonistas que habitan esta historia.

Some secrets are meant to stay buried—too bad Greg records everything in his diary. In Rodrick Rules, the second book in Jeff Kinney’s #1 international bestselling Diary of a Wimpy Kid series, Greg Heffley is trying to keep one embarrassing incident under wraps. But Rodrick—his older brother and expert tormentor—knows everything. With Rodrick’s band, Löded Diper, making noise (literally), and Greg’s secret hanging on by a thread, it’s only a matter of time before the truth comes out—and turns Greg’s life upside down.

Congo is rich. Swaths of the war-torn African country lack basic infrastructure, and, after many decades of colonial occupation, its people are officially among the poorest in the world. But hidden beneath the soil are vast quantities of cobalt, lithium, copper, tin, tantalum, tungsten, and other treasures. Recently, this veritable periodic table of resources has become extremely valuable because these metals are essential for the global “energy transition”—the plan for wealthy nations to wean themselves off fossil fuels by shifting to sustainable forms of energy, such as solar and wind. The race to electrify the world’s economy has begun, and China has a considerable head start. From Indonesia to South America to Central Africa, Beijing has invested in mines and infrastructure for decades. But the U.S. has begun fighting back with massive investments of its own, as well as sanctions and disruptive tariffs. In this rush for green energy, the world has become utterly reliant on resources unearthed far away and willfully blind to the terrible political, environmental, and social consequences of their extraction. If the Democratic Republic of the Congo possesses such riches, why are its children routinely descending deep into treacherous mines to dig with the most rudimentary of tools, or in some cases their bare hands? Why are Indonesia’s seas and skies being polluted in a rush for battery metals? Why is the Western Sahara, a source for phosphates, still being treated like a colony? Who must pay the price for progress?