Renovación & reemplazo

Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russians have seen the ruble steadily lose ground to alternative means of payment such as barter and privately issued quasi-monies. Industry now collects as much as 70 percent of its receipts in nonmonetary form, leaving many firms with too little cash to pay salaries and taxes. In this ground-breaking book on the Russian economy, David Woodruff argues that Moscow's inability to control the nation's currency is not a carry-over from the Soviet past. Rather, the Russian government has failed to build the administrative capacity and political support...

Mogadiscio nos descubre un país en crisis, Somalia, a través de los ojos de Nicolás Berlanga, embajador de la Unión Europea en el país. Las páginas de este libro recorren las experiencias vividas por el autor durante algo más de dos años y la narración, estructurada en entradas cronológicas sin llegar a ser un diario, se inicia con el aterrizaje en la capital y continúa con la aparente normalidad de vivir en una cárcel de oro con fuertes medidas de seguridad. Pero poco a poco nos adentra en los difíciles días de la inesperada pandemia, la gestión del confinamiento y el...

Documentada investigación periodística pone en cuestión la versión canónica sobre el secuestro de Eichmann en la Argentina.

The former commander of coalition forces in Iraq reports back from the front lines of the global war on terror to provide a comprehensive and chilling exploration of America's historic military and foreign-policy blunder. With unflinching candor, Lieutenant General Ricardo S. Sanchez describes the chaos on the Iraqi battlefield caused by the Bush administration's misguided command of the military, as well as his own struggle to set the coalition on the path toward victory. Sanchez shows how minor insurgent attacks grew into synchronized operations that finally ignited into a major insurgency...