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The term Mexican Drug War misleads. It implies that the ongoing bloodbath, which has now killed well over 100,000 people, is an internal Mexican affair. But this diverts attention from the US role in creating and sustaining the carnage. It's not just that Americans buy drugs from and sell weapons to Mexico's murderous cartels. It's that ever since the US prohibited the use and sale of drugs in the early 1900s, it has pressured Mexico into acting as its border enforcer - with increasingly deadly consequences.

A sensational disappearance that made headlines around the world. A quest for truth that leads to death, madness or disappearance for those who seek to solve it. The Lost City of Z is a blockbuster adventure narrative about what lies beneath the impenetrable jungle canopy of the Amazon. After stumbling upon a hidden trove of diaries, acclaimed New Yorker writer David Grann set out to find out what happened to the British explorer Percy Fawcett and his quest for the Lost City of Z.

By the mid 1980s, the criminal underworld in the United States had become an ethnic polyglot; one of the most powerful illicit organizations was none other than the Cuban mob. Known on both sides of the law as "the Corporation", the Cuban mob's power stemmed from a criminal culture embedded in south Florida's exile community - those who had been chased from the island by Castro's revolution and planned to overthrow the Marxist dictator and reclaim their nation.

For the first time, in Fifth Sun, the history of the Aztecs is offered in all its complexity based solely on the texts written by the indigenous people themselves. Camilla Townsend presents an accessible and humanized depiction of these native Mexicans, rather than seeing them as the exotic, bloody figures of European stereotypes.

Panama, 1989. The once warm relationship between United States and Gen. Manuel Noriega has eroded dangerously. Newly elected President George Bush has declared the strongman a drug trafficker and a rigger of elections. Intimidation on the streets is a daily reality for U.S. personnel and their families. The nation is a powder keg. Naval Investigative Service (NIS) Special Agent Rick Yell has worked the job in Panama since 1986, and lives there with his wife Annya and infant child. Like most NIS agents, he’s a civilian with no military rank with a specialty in working criminal cases.

Step into the magical world of Brazilian mythology, where ancient tales come alive. This audiobook takes you on a fascinating adventure into the myths and legends shaped by the many people who have called Brazil home. From enchanted jungles to mysterious sea creatures, these stories continue to influence Brazil’s vibrant culture today.

A través del examen de múltiples fuentes Confino, muestra que la Contraofensiva no fue una excepcionalidad o una "aventura mesiánica", sino una estrategia posible en la línea de desarrollo de Montoneros, inseparable de la situación de exilio, de la historia política del país y de la región.

El 26 de julio de 1952, tras dos años de enfermedad y una larga agonía, muere Eva Duarte de Perón. Más de dos millones de personas asistieron a los innumerables funerales y ceremonias que se realizaron durante quince días en todo el territorio de Argentina y aún muchas más pudieron escuchar todos los detalles de las exequias a través de la radio. El dolor, la tristeza, el desconsuelo y la gratitud embargaron a las multitudes que lloraron su muerte.

Nestes trechos selecionados de seu livro "A mulher moderna", Josefina Álvares de Azevedo faz uma contundente defesa do integração da mulher ao processo eleitoral, na então recém-proclamada república brasileira. "Queremos o direito de intervir nas eleições, de eleger e ser eleitas, como os homens, em igualdade de condições", ela afirma, tecendo críticas aos políticos que boicotavam o movimento.

Crônica histórica no contexto da Guerra do Paraguai sobre a formação de um corpo militar destinado a marchar sobre o alto Paraguai. Detalhes sobre as distâncias percorridas, as imensidões da fronteira, as dificuldades impostas pelo terreno e até mesmo pela moral da tropa.

Nestes trechos selecionados do livro "Opúsculo humanitário", de Nísia Floresta, a autora traça um breve panorama da história da educação feminina. Ela mostra, com exemplos, que as civilizações que descuidaram da educação das mulheres acabaram por declinar. Por exceção, apresenta a Grécia antiga como o espaço onde essa cenário era diferente.

"Era quase geral a opinião, como dissemos, que a instrução intelectual era inútil quando não prejudicial às meninas": eis o resumo do cenário que Nísia Floresta ainda encontra em seu tempo. Nestes trechos selecionados do seu livro "Opúsculo humanitário", a autora introduz ao leitor o histórico das escolas para meninas no Brasil, tecendo críticas a ambos os modelos – público e privado.

"Demonstrar a influência que tem a educação das mulheres sobre a moralidade e a civilização dos seus povos": eis o desejo subjacente de Nísia Floresta nestes trechos selecionados do seu livro "Opúsculo humanitário". Ela destaca aqui os privilégios reais e o respeito à mulher na Alemanha, a liberdade e os direitos próprios da mulher na Grã-Bretanha, o espírito forte da mulher na França e a preferência da mulher dos Estados Unidos pela verdade e pelo útil.

Em tempos antigos, existia uma cidade na rua que hoje é chamada de Uruguaiana. Além dessa rua, havia um grande campo onde ficava a capela de São Domingos. No entanto, com a construção da capela de Santa Ana e a expansão das casas ao redor da capela de São Domingos, o campo passou a ser conhecido como campo de Santa Ana. No início do século, o campo de Santa Ana era uma extensa área coberta de vegetação rasteira e pântanos em alguns lugares. Havia casas nas três faces da praça, separadas por muros de jardins e quintais. O campo era usado para exercícios militares e celebrações religiosas.

The Motorcycle Diaries is Che Guevara's diary of his journey to discover the continent of Latin America while still a medical student, setting out in 1952 on a vintage Norton motorcycle together with his friend Alberto Granado, a biochemist. It captures, arguably as much as any book ever written, the exuberance and joy of one person's youthful belief in the possibilities of humankind tending toward justice, peace, and happiness.

The Falklands War was one of the strangest in British history - 28,000 men sent to fight for a tiny relic of empire 8,000 miles from home. At the time, many Britons saw it as a tragic absurdity, but the British victory confirmed the quality of British arms and boosted the political fortunes of the Conservative government.

In 1532, the 54-year-old Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro led a force of 167 men, including his four brothers, to the shores of Peru. Unbeknownst to the Spaniards, the Inca rulers of Peru had just fought a bloody civil war in which the emperor Atahualpa had defeated his brother, Huascar. Pizarro and his men soon clashed with Atahualpa and a huge force of Inca warriors at the Battle of Cajamarca.

Since the days of conquistador Hernán Cortés, rumors have circulated about a lost city of immense wealth hidden somewhere in the Honduran interior, called the White City or the Lost City of the Monkey God. Indigenous tribes speak of ancestors who fled there to escape the Spanish invaders, and they warn that anyone who enters this sacred city will fall ill and die.

In the 1950s, a young Indianapolis minister named Jim Jones preached a curious blend of the gospel and Marxism. His congregation was racially mixed, and he was a leader in the early civil rights movement. Eventually, Jones moved his church, Peoples Temple, to northern California, where he got involved in electoral politics and became a prominent Bay Area leader. But underneath the surface lurked a terrible darkness.

Escribí Las venas para difundir ideas ajenas y experiencias propias que quizás ayuden un poquito, en su realista medida, a despejar los interrogantes que nos persiguen desde siempre: ¿es América Latina una región del mundo condenada a la humillación y a la pobreza? ¿Condenada por quién? ¿Culpa de Dios, culpa de la naturaleza? ¿No será la desgracia un producto de la historia, hecha por los hombres y que por los hombres puede, por lo tanto, ser deshecha?