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By Marco Benavides. In the turbulent 1960s, the United States was the scene of an unprecedented cultural rebellion. Amidst the Cold War, the civil rights struggle, and the Vietnam War, youth movements emerged that fundamentally questioned the dominant values ​​inherited from the 1950s, characterized by the rigid control of young people's behavior in the United States, spearheaded by President Eisenhower, a military man and war hero. Among them, the hippies and the Yippies became symbols of the "counterculture"—proposing alternative ways of living, thinking, and relating when the official culture was perceived as rigid, unjust, or empty—although with profoundly different approaches to challenging the system. The hippie movement was born in the early 1960s, especially in San Francisco, in the emblematic Haight-Ashbury neighborhood. More than an organized political project, it was a way of life. Hippies rejected consumerism, moral rigidity, and institutional violence, propos...

  By Dr Marco Benavides. Some bands construct their legacy across decades whilst others illuminate the sky in an instant, depart, and leave an indelible mark. Creedence Clearwater Revival belongs to this latter lineage. Between 1967 and 1972, CCR defined a sound, penned generational anthems, and embodied the deepest tensions of late-1960s American society. The story begins far from the Southern swamps that would later populate their imagination. John Fogerty, Doug Clifford, and Stu Cook met at secondary school in El Cerrito, California, forming The Blue Velvets in the late 1950s. Tom Fogerty, John's elder brother, joined as rhythm guitarist. In 1964, they signed with Fantasy Records, which imposed the name The Golliwogs without consultation. These years proved decisive: John Fogerty emerged as the creative nucleus, honing a rasping voice and a compositional style that combined narrative, social critique, and expressive economy. By late 1967, the musical landscape had shifted ...

 By: Dr. Marco Benavides. September 1, 1939 dawned with the metallic roar of German tanks penetrating the Polish plains. That day, Europe not only crossed a geographical border: it crossed the threshold into its own abyss. What followed was a vertiginous descent into absolute barbarity, a conflict that devoured entire continents and claimed more than sixty million lives. The Second World War was not simply a succession of battles: it was the violent implosion of a world order that could no longer sustain itself on its own contradictions. The seeds of this catastrophe germinated in the rubble of the Treaty of Versailles. That peace agreement was nothing more than revenge disguised as diplomacy, a document that humiliated Germany without disarming its resentment. The Weimar Republic floundered amidst hyperinflation and mass unemployment, while in the beer halls of Munich, an Austrian corporal with a trimmed mustache promised national redemption. Adolf Hitler did not invent hatred: he...