Heridos de la guerra

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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...

El presente trabajo se debe a la pasión con que Solange Alberro se dedicó a recopilar la información, en México, en Estados Unidos y en España, acerca del Tribunal del Santo Oficio. Busca aclarar algunas dudas que impiden comprender realmente el significado de la Inquisición, la importancia de dicha institución en la Nueva España y su relación con la sociedad y el poder.

A mediados del siglo XIX la consolidación del modelo de estado liberal en España y el relevo de sus clases dirigentes se articulan como procesos en interacción. El presente trabajo pone el acento en los actores/sujetos históricos, en este caso, las elites políticas que representaron a la provincia de Huelva en los cuerpos legislativos durante la Década Moderada. Partiendo de este objetivo genérico se analizan los medios de acceso a la política, el uso del poder a través de la práctica parlamentaria y el perfil sociolíogico de estas elites, no sólo políticas sino también sociales ...