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The explosive memoir of legendary DEA agents and the subject of the hit Netflix series Narcos, Steve Murphy and Javier F. Peña In the decades they spent at the DEA, Javier Peña and Steve Murphy risked their lives hunting large and small drug traffickers. But their biggest challenge was the...

This is a comprehensive history of Portugal that covers the whole span, from the Stone Age to today. An introduction provides an understanding of geographical and climatic issues, before an examination of Portugal's prehistory and classical Portugal, from the Stone Age to the end of the the Roman era. Portugal's history from AD 420 to the 13th century takes in the Suevi, Visigoths and Moors. Then, a look at medieval Portugal, covers the development of Christian Portugal culminating with the expulsion of the Moors, with a focus on key sites.  

The miraculous survival and dramatic rescue of the Chilean miners On 12 October 2010 the world’s attention was fixed on a remote Chilean mine. Final preparations were underway for a daring rescue to end the longest underground entrapment in human history. Learn how 33 trapped men and the...

Rooted in two vastly different cultures, a young man struggles to understand himself, find his place in the world, and reconnect with his mother—and her remote tribe in the deepest jungles of the Amazon rainforest—in this powerful memoir that combines adventure, history, and anthropology...

On May 14th, 2003, the familiar risk taken by hopeful immigrants illegally crossing the Mexican-American border into the United States took a tragic turn. At least 74 illegal immigrants bound for Houston were crammed inside a sweltering truck trailer, which was found abandoned near Victoria...

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.

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.

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.

Expert journalist and editor-in-chief of Caracas Chronicles Rafael Osío Cabrices offers a riveting, rigorous, and deeply personal account of the modern history of his country, from the rise of Chávez and the slow erosion of democracy, to the U.S. invasion and capture of Maduro. In this...

Following Hernando Cortés's conquest of Tenochtitlan in 1521, the Aztec empire became the center of the largest European colony in the Americas. It has long been assumed that Indigenous people's personal experiences of this cataclysmic era are inaccessible. Spanish records do not reflect how...

Cuando se cumplen 500 años del inicio de la aventura andina de Francisco de Pizarro, sin que se esperen grandes actos de conmemoración, aquellos hechos siguen rodeados de mitos y propaganda. El colapso del convulso mundo indígena, la hazaña de un puñado de españoles y las posteriores luchas entre conquistadores integran una de las mayores epopeyas de la humanidad que, sin embargo, la leyenda negra y el olvido han distorsionado.

Este audiolivro conta a história da mais violenta e esquecida guerra urbana do país. Em São Paulo, 5 de julho de 1924, explodiu uma revolução. Oficiais do Exército, Marinha e Força Pública queriam implantar uma ditadura, fazer reformas e acabar com a corrupção. Era a segunda intentona dos tenentes rebeldes. Dois anos antes, no mesmo dia 5 de julho, rebelaram-se no Forte de Copacabana, mas o levante foi rapidamente sufocado.

Nesta nova temporada, Apartheid Tropical narra como, diante do fracasso das promessas constitucionais, a população negra precisou se reorganizar e reinventar a resistência.

Historia de la dominación española en el Uruguay, de Francisco Bauzá, es una crónica magistral que desentraña tres siglos de rivalidades coloniales en la Banda Oriental, desde el descubrimiento por Solís en 1516 hasta la independencia en 1810. Bauzá, con rigor histórico y narrativa vibrante, pinta un Uruguay primitivo, habitado por tribus nómadas como charrúas y guaraníes, transformado por la pugna entre España y Portugal por el control del Río de la Plata.

Se cumplen cuatro décadas de la peor tragedia con origen natural del siglo XX, no solo en Colombia sino en el mundo entero, y este audiolibro periodístico es un homenaje a las víctimas, un impresionante ejercicio de reconstrucción y memoria, y una impactante revelación.

Dans la soirée du 16 octobre 1998, le dictateur chilien Augusto Pinochet est arrêté dans une clinique de Londres. Après un règne brutal marqué par des assassinats, des disparitions et des tortures dans le centre de détention et d'interrogatoire situé au « 38, rue de Londres », à Santiago, il est inculpé de crimes de génocide, de tortures, de terrorisme international et d'enlèvements. Il sera empêché de retourner au Chili pendant plus d'un an, en attendant l'aboutissement de la bataille juridique internationale autour de son cas.

La Sabaneta: Venezuela’s Infamous Hellhole exposes the brutal reality of one of the world’s most violent prisons. Ruled by gangs and neglected by the state, La Sabaneta became a lawless microcosm of corruption, cruelty, and survival. Through firsthand accounts and investigative reporting, this book reveals a system where inmates ran the prison, justice was forgotten, and death was routine. From the rise of the powerful pranes to the 2013 massacre that shocked the world, this is a haunting portrait of institutional collapse—and the human cost of it.

In the deserts and highlands of Peru, ancient remains have raised questions that refuse to disappear. Elongated skulls unlike known human variation. Burial sites tied to persistent indigenous memory. Monumental landscapes aligned with the sky, appearing suddenly in the archaeological record. For over a century, these anomalies have been cataloged, classified, and explained—yet never fully resolved. The Silent Visitors is not a book that claims answers. It is a book that examines why certain questions remain unasked.

A dramatic tale of explorers of the 1930s racing to find and harvest a poisonous Amazon vine, and how their work plundered local tribes and spurred the invention of new medicines. In the fall of 1938, a young, frail American explorer set off down a river in the western Amazon in search of curare...

How did Latin America's exceptional democracy become a nearly failed state? Why would a leader firmly in control lead one of the planet's richest countries into a humanitarian crisis? Conventional wisdom blames the madness of a populist leader who squandered an oil fortune. In Venezuela's Collapse, Carlos Lizarralde offers an alternative account that places race, ethnicity, and the struggle over resources at the center of the Hugo Chavez story. The book chronicles 500 years of demographic and economic strands that came together in 1998 with the election of a dashing new President.