Plata, comercio y guerra

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Suggesting that better understanding of conflicts between Anglo and Latin America can come from the study of their contrasting popular fictions, the author compares the traditional attachment in Latin America to government by a strong man—a caudillo—to the diametrically opposed expansionist frontier ideology of the United States—the cowboy—who makes space safe for Anglo colonization.

La historia de los agentes dobles que engañaron a la Alemania nazi y contribuyeron al éxito del desembarco en Normandía es bien conocida. O así lo creíamos. Porque esta es la primera vez que estos personajes y sus actos se han investigado a fondo con la documentación de los archivos del Servicio Secreto británico, y lo que Ben MacIntyre –uno de los más prestigiosos investigadores del mundo del espionaje, autor de "El agente Zigzag" y de "El hombre que nunca existió"- ha descubierto es que lo que los propios protagonistas contaron en sus memorias no era toda la verdad. MacIntyre...