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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...

Jorge Garcia Montes was born in New York, United States, on october 19, 1898. His father, Jose Maria Garcia Montes, was exiled during the war of Cuba's independence against the Spaniards. Later, he became the first Secretary of Finance in 1902 with the first President of the Republic of Cuba, Tomas Estrada Palma. He studied at the University of Havana, where he graduated with a Law degree in 1917. An eminent student, he recieved several awards, among them the Lanuza prize. Elected to the House of Representatives from the Province of Santa Clara, Garcia Montes was a member of the Liberal...

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...

Los cinco autores de esta obra nos dan a conocer la historia del estado de Aguascalientes desde la epoca Chichimeca; la avanzada colonizadora del siglo XVI y la etapa colonial hasta el nacimiento del estado de Aguascalientes en 1857. El siglo XX relata el escenario de la Convencion de 1914, el estado cardenista y la guerra cristera.