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San Martín es dado por muerto cuatro años antes de fallecer. Avellaneda sale al balcón de la Casa Rosada para enfrentar a una multitud y lo ovacionan como si fuera Perón. La madre de un presidente le impone una novia que él no quiere. Un ministro parece haber muerto en circunstancias muy comprometedoras, y un empresario cambió su testamento cuando ya estaba muerto.

Award-winning journalist Javier Sinay investigates a series of murders from the nineteenth century, unearthing the complex history and legacy of Moisés Ville, the “Jerusalem of South America,” and his personal connection to a defining period of Jewish history in Argentina.

A partir de una experiencia personal con la taxidermia, y rodeado de anécdotas sobre el traslado de huesos, Cristóbal Marín narra en esta crónica las peripecias de su viaje en búsqueda de información sobre el paradero y destino de los fueguinos que murieron tanto en Londres como Europa durante el siglo XIX luego de ser expuestos en zoológicos humanos y ferias o llevados, siempre contra su voluntad, para ser analizados por científicos y anatomistas y, en algunos casos, educados en los valores occidentales con el propósito de que regresara "civilizados" a sus tierras.

On 12th May 1982, as the Falklands conflict became a shooting war, journalist Julian Manyon and his TV crew were kidnapped on the streets of Buenos Aires and put through a traumatic mock execution by the secret police. Less than eight hours later, they were invited to film a world exclusive interview with an apologetic President Galtieri, head of the Argentine Junta. Spurred on by the recent release of declassified CIA documents about Argentina's 'Dirty War', Manyon discovered the identity of his kidnapper and his terrifying record of torture and murder

"A proposta de uma revolução copernicana na análise e interpretação da história do Brasil—esta é a marca identificadora do novo livro de Jorge Caldeira. Valendo-se de novos dados, antes de difícil acesso organizado, investiga a formação da riqueza em nosso país, desde a Colônia, para atribuir nova dimensão ao papel do mercado interno."

Conquistadores (or Conquistadors) were the Spanish and Portuguese conquerors who invaded parts of the world that hadn’t been discovered by the Europeans before the 16th century. Some were incentivized by greed, lust, and dominance, which caused them to pillage, steal, and enslave the indigenous people they encountered. In this audiobook, you will learn more about one infamous sadist in particular: Francisco Pizarro, who abused and attacked the Peruvian peoples, acted as an inquisitor for the Catholic Church, and inflicted physical and psychological wounds on his subjects.

"En algunos de sus relatos Gabriel García Márquez habla de un hombre que está muriendo de indigencia en el paraíso. Cualquier colombiano, rico o pobre, puede hoy reconocerse allí."

¿Quién se rinde? es parte de uno de los eslóganes mas cantados en Bolivia en los días de la primavera boliviana, una de las partes mas importantes de la narración. El núcleo del relato son los catorce años del gobierno autoritario de Evo Morales. El libro está dividido en siete capítulos: El primer capítulo es un resumen de la historia de Bolivia, desde su fundación hasta el inicio del gobierno de Evo Morales. Los tres periodos de mandato autoritario que tuvo el Movimiento al Socialismo, partido de Evo Morales, se describen en entre los capítulos dos y cinco.

Fabián Escalante, the founder of the Cuban Intelligence Services and head of the Cuban State Security Department, provides a clear-eyed, first-person account of his experiences defending Fidel Castro from the extraordinary attempts to take his life. From lethal poisons to plastic explosives to bazookas, Escalante introduces and describes an array of assassination plots and historical figures and depicts the ensuing cat-and-mouse game in the midst of the Cold War.

While Americans have been deeply absorbed with the topic of immigration for generations, emigration from the United States has been almost entirely ignored. Following the US Civil War, an estimated 10,000 Confederates left the US South, most of them moving to Brazil, where they became known as Confederados, Portuguese for “Confederates”. These Southerners were the largest organized group of White Americans to ever voluntarily emigrate from the United States.

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.

With all the authority obtained at the cost of numberless sacrifices, firm in his belief, justified by six years' experience, Bolivar expresses once more the same fundamental ideas of the Manifesto of Cartagena and the Kingston Letter. This is a decisive moment for the fate of the young nation.

Cuando Bernardo Gutiérrez pisó la Amazonia brasileña, supo que ya había amado aquellos colores, aquellos ríos. De niño había pasado dos años en Caracas y guardaba tenues imágenes de indígenas, aguas negras y hormigas gigantes. Fue corrigiendo aquellos recuerdos en su último viaje, desde Manaos hasta la desembocadura del Amazonas. Recorrió una tierra de doble filo, al mismo tiempo cielo e infierno.

When you think of the Aztecs, you might think of certain movies you have seen or what you've been taught in history class. And although some of those images and descriptions fit the main narrative, there is still much left to be discovered. The Inca empire was vast and massive. Infamous among the historical stories from the Spanish invaders are the evidence of human sacrifice and their polytheistic views on nature and life. Other aspects of the Inca empire constitute of the role women, children, and merchants played, and their extensive system of roads, networks, and travel points.

Mezcla entre ficción y realidad, Un día de guerra en Ayacucho cuenta la historia de tres icónicas batallas que cambiaron el rumbo de la guerra de emancipación que, en el siglo XIX, Perú libró en contra de España, originada de un ferviente deseo de libertad.

Una crónica que nos abre la puerta a la intimidad de los 365 días transcurridos desde la forzada renuncia de Evo Morales en noviembre de 2019 y su rescate clandestino hasta el regreso triunfante a su país en noviembre de 2020.

Following the 1808 French invasion of the Iberian Peninsula, an unprecedented political crisis threw the Spanish Monarchy into turmoil. On the Caribbean coast of modern-day Colombia, the important port town of Cartagena rejected Spanish authority, finally declaring independence in 1811. Based on handwritten and printed sources in Spanish, English, and French, this book tells the story of Cartagena's multinational and multicultural seafarers, revealing the Trans-Atlantic and maritime dimensions of South American independence.

The Inca empire was vast and massive. Yet, still so few people know much about it, aside from what they've heard from vague rumors. But did you know the Inca people showed various similarities to those who came from the Middle East? Did you know that they mummified their dead and built pyramids? Infamous among the historical stories from the Spanish invaders are the evidence of human sacrifice and their polytheistic views on nature and life.

"No es cuento, es historia" es producto de la inteligencia de la historiadora Inés Quintero, que creó en las ondas hertzianas micros sobre el pasado de Venezuela. Ahora, Inés Quintero, fiel su público, ha recopilado en un segundo volumen, "No es cuento, es historia II". Como ocurre con el primer tomo, aquí también se disfrutan momentos divertidos y asombrosos de nuestra historia, con la frescura, inteligencia y sentido del humor de esta académica tan prestigiosa y tan hábil para comunicarse con el gran público.

La historia más bella y mejor documentada de las sesenta y una jóvenes maestras que Sarmiento "importó" de los Estados Unidos a la Argentina en el siglo XIX. Sus amores, tragedias y relaciones prohibidas, y sus batallas pedagógicas y aventuras en las luchas políticas que asolaban la república, en un relato cautivante de la mano de Laura Ramos.