La cicatriz gloriosa

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...

Pedro de Valencia, propone que el orden económico se organice de tal manera que los seres humanos puedan conseguir con su trabajo los bienes que necesitan para vivir dignamente; que el orden social se estructure sin privilegios; que el orden político fomente el bien común de la sociedad y no los intereses particulares de los poderosos; y que el orden ético anteponga en todos los casos la justicia a la utilidad y los valores comunitarios de la solidaridad y la cooperación a los individualistas del egoísmo y la competencia.

Si bien el término "masacre" tiene, en el lenguaje cotidiano, sentidos diversos, la expresión "masacre histórica" remite a un tipo de fenómeno muy específico: el asesinato masivo de un amplio grupo de personas, que habitualmente están desarmadas y tienen una limitada capacidad para defenderse a sí mismas. Fenómenos de este tipo han tenido lugar desde períodos muy tempranos de la historia humana y, en general, siempre que han ocurrido, quienes intentaron explicarlos y contarlos, sea a través de textos, imágenes u otros medios, enfrentaron problemas enormes. '"Cómo sucedieron estas...

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