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Ramfis tenía tanta hambre de poder, tantas ganas de ser el amo de ese paisito ingrato con su padre y su familia, que Abbes García se entregó a fondo durante unos meses a trabajar en una conspiración que esta vez, con el hijo del Jefe implicado, parecía seria. Pero también se vino abajo antes de tomar cuerpo, pues los militares comprometidos se echa
... See moreMario Vargas Llosa • Tiempos recios (Spanish Edition)
In any event, the rising crime figures in Ceará and other north-eastern states were pushing up overall national crime levels, creating the perception that the national government was losing control. Local and national TV news was dominated by stories of robbery, rape and murder. Brazilians were increasingly worried by the prospect that they could f
... See moreRichard Lapper • Beef, Bible and bullets: Brazil in the age of Bolsonaro
Al igual que Marta, no muchas personas en la República Dominicana tenían conciencia clara de que, además del Generalísimo Rafael Leonidas Trujillo, había un Presidente de mera apariencia para satisfacer las exigencias de una careta democrática de los gringos, de quienes el régimen trujillista era hijo putativo y con los que no se llevaba nada bien
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Our nation’s thirteen separate forays into Nicaragua, for instance, are surely worth knowing about as we attempt to understand why that country embraced a communist government in the 1980s.
James W. Loewen • Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong
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Raf Noboa y Rivera • 1 card
Riggs had just come from Nicaragua, where he’d been advising a budding dictator named Anastasio Somoza, who, one month later, on February 21, 1934, would assassinate Augusto Sandino.
Nelson Denis • War Against All Puerto Ricans: Revolution and Terror in America's Colony
