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Augusto Pinochet was the most important Third World dictator of the Cold War, and perhaps the most ruthless. In The Dictator's Shadow, United Nations Ambassador Heraldo Munoz takes advantage of his unmatched set of perspectives -- as a former revolutionary who fought the Pinochet regime, as a respected scholar, and as a diplomat -- to tell what this extraordinary figure meant to Chile, the United States, and the world. Pinochet's American backers saw his regime as a bulwark against Communism; his nation was a testing ground for U.S.-inspired economic theories. Countries desiring World Bank...

Este libro ofrece un panorama de los debates que fundaron las tradiciones ideológicas fundamentales del siglo XIX hispanoamericano. De Rafael Rojas, ganador del Premio Matías Romero de Historia Diplomática. La guerra armada en las nacientes repúblicas hispanoamericanas tuvo su paralelo en el mundo de las ideas. Ésta es su historia. Este libro aborda las disputas intelectuales que acompañaron a las guerras civiles entre liberales y conservadores en Hispanoamérica, a mediados del siglo XIX. Entre 1830 y 1870, las repúblicas que nacieron tras la caída del imperio español en América,...

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Estamos ante un aporte original al conocimiento de un ciclo histórico que se inició en la Argentina con el golpe de Estado de 1955 y finalizó con la interrupción de la democracia constitucional de 1976, seguida por el genocidio que alcanzó a las fuerzas estudiantiles que este período vio nacer y florecer. Estos años, marcados por una gran conflictividad social que ocasionó una creciente inestabilidad política, conforman uno de los grandes debates actuales de la ciencia social argentina y suscitan en general un inmenso interés político, como lo pone en evidencia la creciente...