These short stories surfaced within my head each time I had the occasion to read published reports of a parent, or parents, who happened to slaughter his, her, or their offspring. It seemed as if every time one turned on the television, picked up a newspaper or magazine, the one story to catch one's attention was about the death of an innocent child at the hand of a parent. Each time I wondered as to who that child would have been or what he or she could have accomplished. It saddened me to think that a human life had just been extinguished without having been given a chance to excel in life. The more I read or heard, the more I pondered the idea of giving each child his or her chance to show what he or she would have been. I purposely chose to portray the positive possibilities and decided not to dwell on the things that could be construed as negative. Each child's short-lived beginning was already too short and too negative. I hope that these short stories bring to light and instill in all who read them what a great loss a child's passing is for all of us. The world may never know what each child's contribution to humanity would have been, or what ailments and human ills they would have eradicated. It is with hope that this book may, even though fictional, somehow bestow credence to their brief lives.

These short stories surfaced within my head each time I had the occasion to read published reports of a parent, or parents, who happened to slaughter his, her, or their offspring. It seemed as if every time one turned on the television, picked up a newspaper or magazine, the one story to catch one's attention was about the death of an innocent child at the hand of a parent. Each time I wondered as to who that child would have been or what he or she could have accomplished. It saddened me to think that a human life had just been extinguished without having been given a chance to excel in life. The more I read or heard, the more I pondered the idea of giving each child his or her chance to show what he or she would have been. I purposely chose to portray the positive possibilities and decided not to dwell on the things that could be construed as negative. Each child's short-lived beginning was already too short and too negative. I hope that these short stories bring to light and instill in all who read them what a great loss a child's passing is for all of us. The world may never know what each child's contribution to humanity would have been, or what ailments and human ills they would have eradicated. It is with hope that this book may, even though fictional, somehow bestow credence to their brief lives.

Hoy como ayer, la violencia organizada del hombre sobre el hombre continua siendo parte de la condicion humana. En muchos casos esta violencia es perpetrada por regimenes despoticos. En otras ocasiones es la respuesta de pueblos que se rebelan ante sistemas opresivos o gobiernos a los que consideran ilegitimos o tiranicos.

El libro Los Limites de la Violencia: Lecciones de una vida revolucionaria recoge las memorias y reflexiones de Elan Le Vieux, un revolucionario que sobrevivio cien anos recorriendo los escenarios politicamente mas conmocionados del siglo XX. Bajo la premisa de que todo pueblo tiene derecho a sublevarse ante un regimen opresor, Elan centra el foco sobre los metodos violentos de lucha revolucionaria: su legitimidad, sus consecuencias y sus limites. Tambien analiza los desafios de reemplazar a un regimen opresivo evitando al mismo tiempo convertirse uno mismo en el nuevo opresor. De este modo contribuye a fortalecer la concepcion, desarrollo y preservacion de los mas altos valores de cualquier revolucion genuina, independientemente de su signo ideologico.

La propuesta de Elan para todos y cada uno de los revolucionarios del siglo XXI es que primero analicen si sus objetivos pueden lograrse a traves de reformas o si la revolucion es necesaria. Cuando se han agotado otras instancias para liberarse de la opresion, Elan convoca a considerar herramientas revolucionarias modernas que pueden llegar a ser tanto o mas efectivas que el tradicional empleo de la lucha armada. Si finalmente se juzga que usar la violencia para combatir la violencia es el unico curso de accion efectivamente posible, Elan examina como hacerlo sin convertirse uno mismo en un individuo violento y evitando establecer un regimen tan opresivo y violento como el que se intenta deponer. Es asi como Elan muestra al revolucionario etico un camino para convertirse en esa rara figura de la historia a la que las generaciones futuras admiraran y honraran."