La Transformación de Los Ejércitos Españoles (1975-2008)

n the last decades—and especially since the 1990s—there has been a noticeable reemergence of the nineteenth century in Southern Cone culture. Popular nineteenth-century figures (indios, gauchos, letrados, and cautivas) have reentered the national literary scene in Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay. Nineteenth-century heroes such as San Martín and Artigas are again the main protagonists of Southern Cone theater, film, and literature. Canonical nineteenth-century texts (La cautiva, Martín Fierro, Facundo) are being rewritten one more time in different artistic fields. Foundational...

Hubo un tiempo, entre 1814 y 1820, en que las independencias hispanoamericanas –ese acontecimiento inaugural que solemos dar por sentado como una consecuencia "natural" de las guerras revolucionarias– peligraron y estuvieron literalmente en suspenso, a punto de verse sofocadas por fuerzas contrarrevolucionarias. En ese sexenio de pura incertidumbre, en esa "crisis del tiempo" que se abrió con la caída del imperio napoleónico y la restitución de Fernando VII a la corona española, una pregunta sobrevolaba en los corrillos políticos y diplomáticos: ¿se aliará España con la...

This book is perhaps the most profound, sincere, and all encompassing look into the character of the Cuban people: their triumphs and falls, their past, present and future. An important and lucid book for understanding the history and reality of the Cuban nation.

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...