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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...

Madrid, 24 de enero de 1977. Cinco muertos y varios heridos es el terrible balance de un atentado terrorista contra un despacho de abogados laboralistas cometido en la calle Atocha de Madrid por un comando de extrema derecha. Los fallecidos son los abogados Luis Javier Benavides, Francisco Javier Sauquillo y Enrique Valdelvira; el estudiante Serafín Holgado y el administrativo Ángel Rodríguez Leal. Los heridos, todos graves, Miguel Sarabia, Alejandro Ruiz Huerta, Luis Ramos y Dolores González Ruiz. Casi cuarenta años después de la matanza, en la plaza de Antón Martín, una escultura en ...

En este libro se realiza una semblanza de la historia que nos acerca a la vida de nuestros primos los Hombres de Neandertal, llamados así por haberse encontrado sus primeros restos reconocidos por la ciencia en el Valle del Neander, tramo del desfiladero del río Düsseln, Cuevas de Feldhofer, cercanías de Düsseldort-Renania del Norte-Westfalia (Alemania). El Hombre de Neandertal vivió en Europa durante el período que va del año 250.000 al 21.430 a.C. y los últimos restos encontrados de los miembros de esta especie humana habitaron en España y es en la Cueva de la Carihuela en donde...