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Hambre, Resentimiento, Miedo y Venganza son las palabras que mejor pueden definir el período comprendido entre 1931 y 1945 en la población de Peligros. Expresiones como las siguientes se repetirán a lo largo de las páginas: ?Se reciben declaraciones de los vecinos de esta localidad de reconocida solvencia moral??. ?El expresado individuo (?) es de mala conducta y antecedentes; fue el más peligroso que tuvo el Frente Popular en este pueblo (?) habiendo participado en cuantas revueltas y saqueos ha habido en este pueblo.? ?Que su vecino (?) fue gran agitador en las elecciones a Diputados y ...

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In "Ill Fares The Land," Tony Judt, one of our leading historians and thinkers, reveals how we have arrived at our present dangerously confused moment and offers the language we need to address our common needs, rejecting the nihilistic individualism of the far right and the debunked socialism of the past. To find a way forward, Judt argues that we must look to our not so distant past and to social democracy in action: to re-enshrining fairness over mere efficiency.

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...