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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...

Traces the history of the Jews in Spain until the expulsion in 1492 in regard to relations between the Crown, the Church, and the populace regarding the Jews and Conversos. Discusses, also, the fate of the Conversos during the 16th century. Focuses on Castile, with special attention to the city of Ávila. Asserts that anti-Jewish hostility in Spain, already from the time of the Visigoths, was not based on racism, but rather on negative religious stereotypes rooted in the minds of the populace and of the lower clergy, as well as on socioeconomic factors, such as the rise of Jews to dominant...

Obra donde se trata la historia del dinero desde su aparición hasta nuestros días; entre otras cuestiones, se aborda aquí: las razones por las cuales al oro y la plata se les consideró la materia monetaria por excelencia; el papel moneda y los bancos; los vínculos entre banca y poder; los bancos centrales y sus funciones y facultades; cómo se creó el dinero en la economía moderna; una síntesis del período en que reinó el oro como patrón monetario; las razones por las que el dólar alcanzó su supremacía después de la Segunda Guerra Mundial; las causas por las cuales colapsaron...

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