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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...

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Todas las civilizaciones que pasaron por Madrid nos dejaron sus leyendas y su pasado, y aquel lejano pasado fue alterado por otros pueblos que sedimentaron nuestra tierra con sus monumentos, sus personajes y sus formas de vida. Este libro es una historia de historias madrileñas, de gentes vinculadas a nuestros campos, sierras, villas y ríos.

Konrad Ratz se propone acabar con las elucubraciones sobre la pareja imperial y con lo que el llama "la leyenda negra." El presente trabajo documenta una relacion de la cual poco se sabe y mucho se especula. Las cartas no solo se refieren a los asuntos de gobierno, sino tambien a vivencias cotidianas.