The Pinochet File: A Declassified Dossier on Atrocity and Accountability

Used book in Good Condition. The new afterword also tells the story of the pinochet file itself: Henry Kissinger’s attempt to undercut the book’s reception generated a major scandal that led to high–level resignations at the Council on Foreign Relations, illustrating the continued ability of the book to speak truth to power.

Documents that were first made publicly available in the original hardcover edition formed the heart of the international campaign to hold Pinochet accountable for murder, ­ torture, and ­terrorism—a campaign chronicled for the first time in this updated edition. This book now includes the story of pinochet’s 2004 indictment and trial, as well as new information about the famous cases of the American Charles Horman and Chilean folk singer Victor Jara—both executed by Pinochet’s military after the coup.

Peter kornbluh spearheaded the effort to declassify some 24, and when the pinochet file was first published in 2003, “Thanks to Peter Kornbluh, 000 secret CIA, Marc Cooper wrote in the Los Angeles Times, and Defense Department records on Chile, we have the first complete, National Security Council, White House, almost day–to–day and fully documented record of this sordid chapter in Cold War American history.

With the publication of this edition, that record becomes even more complete. Revised and updated for the fortieth anniversary of augusto Pinochet’s September 11, military coup in Chile, 1973, The Pinochet File reveals a formerly secret record of complicity with atrocity on the part of the U. S. Government.

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Evita: The Real Life of Eva Peron

She was literally idolized by millions but was hated and feared by many as well. She became Evita, the legend. The life that inspired Evita, the major motion picture starring Madonna. In the colorful, tumultuous setting of postwar Argentina, she wielded a power--spiritual and practical--that has few parallels outside of hereditary monarchy.

It ends with the embalmed corpse of eva Peron being hidden away by nervous politicians for fear that if the working people of Argentina knew where it was buried, it would inspire them to revolution. In between eva peron became first the actress eva duarte, in October 1945 after the "shirtless ones" had swept Peron into office, then the mistress of Colonel Perón, then, the president's wife.

. The story begins in a dusty village lost in the Argentine pampas, where a girl, born out of wedlock, scrambles her way to the capital city by the time she is fifteen.


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Facundo: Or, Civilization and Barbarism Penguin Classics

With more than 1, 700 titles, penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. The book brings nineteenth-century latin american history to life even as it raises questions still being debated today—questions regarding the "civilized" city versus the "barbaric" countryside, the treatment of indigenous and African populations, and the classically liberal plan of modernization.

Facundo’s celebrated and frequently anthologized portraits of Quiroga and other colorful characters give readers an exhilarating sense of Argentine culture in the making. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. It is a study of the argentine character, a prescription for the modernization of Latin America, and a protest against the tyranny of the government of Juan Manuel de Rosas 1835–1852.

Ostensibly a biography of the gaucho barbarian Juan Facundo Quiroga, and political commentary, sociology, passionate work of history, Facundo is also a complex, and Latin America's most important essay of the nineteenth century. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

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I, Rigoberta Menchu: An Indian Woman in Guatemala

Used book in Good Condition. Menchú vividly conveys the traditional beliefs of her community and her personal response to feminist and socialist ideas. Above all, these pages are illuminated by the enduring courage and passionate sense of justice of an extraordinary woman. She learned spanish and turned to catechistic work as an expression of political revolt as well as religious commitment.

Menchú suffered gross injustice and hardship in her early life: her brother, father and mother were murdered by the Guatemalan military. Now a global bestseller, the remarkable life of Rigoberta Menchú, a Guatemalan peasant woman, reflects on the experiences common to many Indian communities in Latin America.

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The United States and the Origins of the Cuban Revolution

He shows what difficulties the smaller country encountered because of U. S. Hegemony and Cuban resistance. Efforts first to make it part of an "empire of liberty" and later to dominate it by economic methods, and he analyzes the kind of misreading of ardent nationalism that continues to plague U. S. Used book in Good Condition.

. Policymaking. Jules benjamin argues convincingly that modern conflicts between Cuba and the United States stem from a long history of U. S. Used book in Good Condition.


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The Brazilian empire: Myths and histories

Used book in Good Condition. History, emilia viotti da costa concentrates on crucial moments in brazilian history to shed light on a number of vexing questions: Why in a nation so rich in material resources is there so much poverty? How was slavery abolished without bloodshed in a country where slaves had represented the main labor force for almost four hundred years? Why did self-described liberal elites twice lead the country toward authoritarian regimes? In exploring these and other puzzles, she uncovers the realities behind many of the persistent myths surrounding the Brazilian empire.

First published in 1985 and now expanded to include a new chapter on women in Brazilian history, economic, political, the book explores the social, and intellectual currents that shaped nineteenth-century Brazil and whose reverberations continue to be felt throughout contemporary Brazilian society. Placing her findings in a rich comparative context with regard to U.

Used book in Good Condition. This classic work is must reading for anyone who would understand Brazil and Latin America, past and present. S.


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Keen's Latin American Civilization, Volume 2: A Primary Source Reader, Volume Two: The Modern Era

Concise introductions for chapters and excerpts provide essential context for understanding the primary sources. Used book in Good Condition. Used book in Good Condition. This second volume retains most of the modern period sources from the ninth edition but with some significant additions including a new set of images and a wide range of new sources that reflect the latest events and trends in contemporary Latin America.

. The 75 excerpts in volume two provide foundational and often riveting first-hand accounts of life in modern Latin America. The tenth edition of keen's latin American Civilization inaugurates a new era in the history of this classic anthology by dividing it into two volumes.


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A Nation of Enemies: Chile Under Pinochet Norton Paperback

The authors explain and illuminate the rift in Chilean society that widened dramatically during the Pinochet era. Used book in Good Condition. Nation of Enemies Chile under Pinochet. Used book in Good Condition. This will stand as the definitive work on Chile under Pinochet for many years to come. Library journal how chile, once South America's most stable democracy, gave way to a culture of fear.

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The Condor Years: How Pinochet And His Allies Brought Terrorism To Three Continents

Used book in Good Condition. Throughout the 1970s, torture, six latin American governments led by Chile formed a military alliance called Operation Condor to carry out kidnappings, and political assassinations across three continents. Nation of Enemies Chile under Pinochet. Dinges, himself interrogated in a chilean torture camp, interviewed participants on both sides and examined thousands of previously secret documents to take the reader inside this underground world of military operatives and diplomats, right-wing spies and left-wing revolutionaries.

It was an early “war on terror” initially encouraged by the CIA which later backfired on the United States. Hailed by foreign affairs as “remarkable” and “a major contribution to the historical record, ” The Condor Years uncovers the unsettling facts about the secret U. S. Relationship with the dictators who created this terrorist organization.

. Written by award-winning journalist john dinges and newly updated to include recent developments in the prosecution of Pinochet, the book is a chilling but dispassionately told history of one of Latin America’s darkest eras. Used book in Good Condition. Used book in Good Condition.


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The Underdogs: A Novel of the Mexican Revolution Penguin Classics

Used book in Good Condition. The greatest novel of the mexican revolution, in a brilliant new translation by an award-winning translator The Underdogs is the first great novel about the first great revolution of the twentieth century. Courageous and charismatic, he earns a generalship in Pancho Villa’s army, only to become discouraged with the cause after it becomes hopelessly factionalized.

Used book in Good Condition. Used book in Good Condition. Demetrio macias, a poor, illiterate Indian, must join the rebels to save his family. Nation of Enemies Chile under Pinochet. At once a spare, and a timeless portrait of revolution, an authentic representation of Mexico’s peasant life, moving depiction of the limits of political idealism,  The Underdogs is an iconic novel of the Latin American experience and a powerful novel about the disillusionment of war.

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A Lexicon of Terror: Argentina and the Legacies of Torture, Revised and Updated with a New Epilogue

Used book in Good Condition. A new york times notable Book of the Year and Finalist for the L. L. Additionally, feitlowitz discusses investigations launched in the intervening years that have indicated that the network of torture centers, concentration camps, and other operations responsible for the "desaparecidas" was more widespread than previously thought.

Nation of Enemies Chile under Pinochet. Used book in Good Condition. Winship / pen new england award in 1998, a lexicon of terror is a sensitive and unflinching account of the sadism, paranoia, and deception the military junta unleashed on the Argentine people from 1976 to 1983. This updated edition features a new epilogue that chronicles major political, legal, and social developments in Argentina since the book's initial publication.

. Used book in Good Condition. A lexicon of terror vividly evokes this shocking era and tells of the long-lasting effects it has left on the Argentine culture. Tanks roaring over farmlands, 30, pregnant women tortured, 000 individuals "disappeared"--these were the horrors of Argentina's Dirty War. It also continues the stories of the individuals involved in the Dirty War, including the torturers, kidnappers and murderers formerly granted immunity under now dissolved amnesty laws.

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