El viaje a Italia

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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...

?Dicha obra es un itinerario por los avatares existenciales de Fidel, ese patriarca caribeño: de rebelde con causa a gestor y artífice de un proyecto que ilusionó a toda una generación y hoy suscita todo tipo de sentimientos, menos la indiferencia; todo tipo de adhesiones; muchos rechazos y, sobre todo, la diáspora imparable de sus propios protagonistas.? (Blog El Bazar del espectáculo) La historia del controvertido líder que supo unir a un pueblo en un discurso de restauración democrática, para luego, eliminar aliados y perpetuarse a toda costa en el poder. No podemos entender estos ...

El Nuevo Mundo - Las primeras fundaciones (1600-1660) - Mayoría de edad del imperio (1660-1763) - Se precipita la Revolución (1763-1776) - La Guerra de la Independencia (1775-1783) - Dos colonias a Federación (1775-1789) - La Convención federal y la Constitución (1786-1789) - La época federalista (1789-1801) - La democracia jeffersoniana (1801-1809)- La segunda guerra con la Gran Bretaña (1809-1815) - Buenos y malos sentimientos (1815-1829) - La era de Jackson (1829-1844) - Las dos secciones (1820-1850) - El imperio del Oeste (1820-1848)- Intermedio pacífico (1846-1854) - El conflicto ...