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Para el exhausto diplomático no había llegado todavía la hora del descanso. Luego de los festejos, el Departamento de Estado le ordenó colaborar estrechamente con la CIA, que, lograda la erradicación de Árbenz, debía borrar todos los trazos de la participación de los Estados Unidos en la Operación PBSuccess. Era indispensable que no quedara rastro
... See moreMario Vargas Llosa • Tiempos recios (Spanish Edition)
While Pax Romana was appreciated by many, it remained imposed by fiat and from a central point of failure. All roads lead to Rome, they said. So, what if Rome fell? So would the entire network. Top-down institutions depend on a constant projection of strength. Ironically, this is precisely what makes them brittle. They depend on a high flow, eventu
... See moreSacha Meyers • Bitcoin Is Venice: Essays on the Past and Future of Capitalism
But hegemony slips away from those who rest easy. As soon as you take something for granted, fate revokes the grant. The US drained its coffers on useless wars and bitter infighting, failing to tackle problems of sufficient ambition to lead the world, instead of merely ruling it—not unlike the progeny of a wealthy family blowing their inheritance o
... See moreEliot Peper • Foundry
The two alliances—a U.S.-led NATO in Western Europe and a Soviet-dominated Warsaw Pact in Eastern Europe—also reached an understanding governing political order in Europe. The Final Act that emerged in 1975 in Helsinki from the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe declared the impermissibility of the threat or use of force, the inviolab
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