Plata, comercio y guerra

La historia de enfermos, enfermedades y médicos desde la Conquista hasta 1906. Males de héroes, próceres y de quienes no lo fueron tanto.

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...

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A lo largo de los últimos años, a partir de la segunda guerra mundial, los perfiles de la derecha y de la izquierda como inequívocas actitudes políticas se han ido difuminando más y más. Las ideologías tradicionales se desdibujan y en su lugar surgen determinados problemas y cuestiones históricas que sirven para separar el pensamiento renovador y emancipatorio del retrógrado y reaccionario. El antimilitarismo es una de esas piedras de toque políticas y morales que distinguen a quienes aún guardan algún ímpetu utópico de aquellos que sólo conservan el apego a los más...