El hambre en el mundo

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...

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Realizado desde la perspectiva periodística y redactado con este estilo, el libro presenta una crónica del pasado más reciente, tan cercano en el tiempo y tan lejano en la memoria colectiva, sometida a la vorágine informativa de nuestra época.

En Independencia, la historiadora Natalia Sobrevilla nos invita a pensarnos como país desde el relato de la gesta emancipadora. La publicación da cuenta de los antecedentes que marcaron el fin del periodo colonial, eventos, personajes y escenarios protagónicos de la independencia del Perú. Cuando se piensa en la Independencia del Perú, se suele poner el foco en la proclamación del general San Martín en Lima, el 28 de julio de 1821. Sin embargo, la complejidad de ese acontecimiento amerita una reflexión que permita comprenderlo más allá del límite celebratorio de las fechas patrias. ...