Historia natural y moral de las Indias

Uno de las cartas más importantes de Simón Bolívar. El seis de septiembre de 1815 Simón Bolívar escribe en Kingston la llamada Carta de Jamaica, piedra angular del pensamiento político y constitucional de la Independencia de las colonias españolas en América. Calificada también como #Carta profética#, se puede considerar la Charta Magna de la nacionalidad político-constitucional de los países libertados por sus ejércitos, de Venezuela a Bolivia. Sus visionarias y sobrias páginas justifican no solo el derecho de los pueblos latinoamericanos para la rebelión anti-imperialista,...

La entrega de una vida al estudio, el cuidado de detalles y el dato preciso, el amor por la patria ante agresiones extranjeras sin fin y el conocimiento profundo de los vericuetos de la política nacional caracterizan el quehacer histórico de Berta Ulloa. Este volumen de homenaje recoge las investigaciones de colegas suyos interesados en los mismos temas y periodos que le han apasionado a ella. Los trabajos contribuyen a la comprensión de la historia del antes, durante y después de la revolución mexicana, desde los ámbitos nacional e internacional. Se echa una mirada hacia el vecino del...

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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...