Pisagua, 1948. Anticomunismo y militarización política en Chile

Un gran relato que nos descubre la apasionante historia de las civilizaciones que nos precedieron. De Europa a Oriente Medio hasta las costas de China, la autora de este ambicioso volumen nos ofrece una mirada única a las vidas de los pueblos que han protagonizado la aventura de la humanidad. Así, más que un libro de historia, el lector tiene en sus manos una exquisita narración de los albores del ser humano. Acompañado de varios mapas que proporcionan al lector un claro sentido de la localización de los acontecimientos, así como de tablas cronológicas que permiten adquirir una...

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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...

Mexican Army veteran Andres Duarte was granted 6,595 acres along the southern foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains in 1841 by the governor of Alta California. Rancho Azusa de Duarte eventually was carved into 40-acre parcels, and arriving families from the East and Midwest built schools, installed water lines, and grew crops. By 1900, two major rail lines served the area's thriving citrus industry. Duarte's beneficial climate led to the establishment in 1913 of a tuberculosis sanitarium, which became City of Hope, the world-class cancer treatment center. Bandleader Glenn Miller settled in...