La tentación totalitaria

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Personaje fundamental de la vida pol tica de Brasil en el siglo XX, Get lio Vargas (1883-1954) imprimi un tono autoritario y populista durante su presidencia, y aplic un modelo econ mico e institucional de sorprendente duraci n. Gobern en dos periodos: de 1930 a 1945 y de 1951 a 1954, a o en que, por conflictos en el ejercicio del poder, decidi darse un tiro en el coraz n. un conjunto de estudios de especialistas brasile os analizan las principales facetas de su pol tica en esta obra.

Ciudad Juarez lies just across the Rio Grande from El Paso, Texas. A once-thriving border town, it now resembles a failed state. Infamously known as the place where women disappear, its murder rate exceeds that of Baghdad. Last year 1,607 people were killed, a number that is on pace to increase in 2009. In Murder City, Charles Bowden, one of the few journalists who has spent extended periods of time in Juarez, has written an extraordinary account of what happens when a city disintegrates. Interweaving stories of its inhabitants, a raped beauty queen, a repentant hitman, a journalist fleeing...

Tres obras fundamentales del historiador Enrique Krauze (Siglo de caudillos, Biografía del poder y La presidencia imperial) se reúnen en este volumen para dar un panorama completo de la historia de México -desde la guerra de Independencia hasta la salida del PRI de Los Pinos- entendida a partir de la biografía de sus protagonistas. Cada libro ha sido reeditado y revisado por el autor y se ha realizado un trabajo de integración entre ellos. Además, el conjunto cuenta con varios textos nuevos, entre ellos un prólogo y un epílogo que hace una reflexión general sobre México y su...