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Dix faces cachées du communisme

Autor: François Kersaudy

Número de Páginas: 222

Les sombres facettes du communisme, des années 1930 à nos jours. Voilà un peu plus d'un siècle que le spectre du communisme hante le monde, en semant partout le chaos, la misère et la mort. Le présent livre en expose dix aspects parmi les moins connus, et qui gagnent pourtant à l'être : le plus grand hold-up de Staline – 510 tonnes d'or soustraites à la banque d'Espagne ; les faux ouvrages sur l'URSS, qui ont berné lecteurs et historiens occidentaux pendant plus d'une décennie ; l'épopée du général Vlassov, héros et traître broyé entre deux dictatures ; les voyages surréalistes du cadavre d'Hitler dans les antres du système soviétique entre 1945 et 1970 ; le combat à mort des deux maréchaux rouges Tito et Staline ; le mois où le monde a frôlé la vitrification instantanée ; le testament explosif de Nikita Khrouchtchev ; quand le négationnisme rouge s'est attaqué au Livre noir du communisme ; la " déconstruction " du mythe de Che Guevara – et jusqu'à Vladimir Poutine, dernier avatar d'un siècle de communisme qui n'a jamais connu son Nuremberg. Un livre-chapitres dont la rigueur se conjugue avec un rare bonheur d'écriture.

Diez rostros ocultos del comunismo

Autor: François Kersaudy

Número de Páginas: 252

El lado oscuro del comunismo desde la década de 1930 hasta nuestros días. Un vibrante y riguroso examen de los diez episodios más delirantes del comunismo: el botín del mayor atraco de Stalin, las 510 toneladas de oro robadas al Banco de España; los libros falsificados sobre la Unión Soviética que engañaron a los lectores e historiadores occidentales; los surrealistas viajes del cadáver de Hitler por los meandros del sistema soviético entre 1945 y 1970; la lucha a muerte de los dos «Mariscales Rojos», Tito y Stalin; la crisisde los misiles de octubre de 1962; el explosivo testamento de Nikita Khrushchev; la «deconstrucción» del mito del Che Guevara... hasta llegar a Vladimir Putin, el último avatar de un siglo de comunismo que nunca llegó a rendir cuentas por sus fechorías.

Che Guevara

Autor: Stuart A. Kallen

Número de Páginas: 92

October 9, 1967. World-renowned revolutionary Che Guevara is dead at the age of thirty-nine. The charismatic Argentinian revolutionary had been leading guerilla fighters in the jungles of Bolivia and was captured by the Bolivian army. Mario Terán, a sergeant in the Bolivian army, volunteered to execute the prisoner. He carried out the bloody assignment with nine point-blank shots to Guevara's body. Around the globe, reactions to the assassination were mixed. In Cuba, where Guevara had helped overthrow a brutally repressive dictatorship in 1959, more than one million people mourned openly. But in the United States and elsewhere, many business leaders and government officials were relieved. Guevara's anti-capitalist movement sought to strip big businesses of their land and power. He wanted to set up socialist systems to spread wealth and resources among ordinary workers—in Latin America and all around the world. To the rich and powerful, Guevara was a dangerous threat. In this chronicle of an assassination, find out what inspired the myth of Che Guevara and what brought him to this bloody crossroads of history.

Che Guevara and the FBI

Autor: Michael Ratner , Michael Steven Smith

Número de Páginas: 252

"Published for the first time are the U.S. secret police files on the legendary revolutionary Ernesto Guevara, showing how the FBI and CIA monitored his movements and activity in the United States, Mexico, Cuba, Africa and Latin America. A Freedom of Information Act request succeeded in obtaining the FBI file on Guevara, containing a wide selection of CIA and other secret documents. With an introduction by the editors, U.S. attorneys Michael Ratner and Michael Steven Smith, this book poses the obvious question: why did the FBI have such a dossier? 'Che is fairly intellectual for a Latino, ' reads a 1958 CIA document on Guevara during the period of the guerrilla war in Cuba. Watched closely after the 1959 revolution, Guevara's every public word was recorded and transmitted to the FBI and CIA, with particular note taken of his anti-U.S. statements. Later documents concern Guevara's disappearance from Cuba in 1965 and his resurfacing in Africa and Bolivia as a guerrilla leader. The sensational materials included in these secret files add to suspicions that U.S. spy agencies were plotting to assassinate Guevara when he was a Cuban government leader in the early 1960s and suggest that...

Che Guevara, Paulo Freire, and the Pedagogy of Revolution

Autor: Peter Mclaren

Número de Páginas: 252

Che Guevara, Paulo Freire, and the Pedagogy of Revolution examines what is currently at stake-culturally, politically, and educationally-in contemporary global capitalist society. Written by one of the world's most renowned critical educators, this book evaluates the message of Che Guevara and Paulo Freire for contemporary politics in general and education in particular. Forcefully argued and eloquently written, Che Guevara, Paulo Freire, and the Pedagogy of Revolution is a clarion call for building a new social order premised on the ideas and philosophy of two of the most important revolutionary figures of this century. It is an indispensable reference point for building transnational alliances between the North American and Latin American.Che Guevara, Paulo Freire is the best introduction available to the ideas and philosophy of these two iconoclastic figures.

Estados Unidos contra Cuba

Autor: Salim Lamrani

Número de Páginas: 240

Who Killed Che?

Autor: Michael Ratner , Michael Steven Smith

Número de Páginas: 204

In compelling detail two leading U.S. civil rights attorneys recount the extraordinary life and deliberate killing of the world's most storied revolutionary: Ernesto Che Guevara.

Humane

Autor: Samuel Moyn

Número de Páginas: 244

"[A] brilliant new book . . . Humane provides a powerful intellectual history of the American way of war. It is a bold departure from decades of historiography dominated by interventionist bromides." —Jackson Lears, The New York Review of Books A prominent historian exposes the dark side of making war more humane In the years since 9/11, we have entered an age of endless war. With little debate or discussion, the United States carries out military operations around the globe. It hardly matters who's president or whether liberals or conservatives operate the levers of power. The United States exercises dominion everywhere. In Humane: How the United States Abandoned Peace and Reinvented War, Samuel Moyn asks a troubling but urgent question: What if efforts to make war more ethical—to ban torture and limit civilian casualties—have only shored up the military enterprise and made it sturdier? To advance this case, Moyn looks back at a century and a half of passionate arguments about the ethics of using force. In the nineteenth century, the founders of the Red Cross struggled mightily to make war less lethal even as they acknowledged its inevitability. Leo Tolstoy prominently...

HISTOIRE et Mystifications

Autor: Michael Parenti

Número de Páginas: 441

Dans un défi impérieux à l’Histoire officielle, Michael PARENTI se bat contre un certain nombre de mythes largement répandus. Il explique comment tout au long de l’Histoire, les vainqueurs déforment ou détruisent archives et documents afin de perpétuer leur pouvoir et leurs privilèges. Il montre également comment les historiens eux-mêmes sont influencés par leur milieu professionnel et leur classe sociale. Abordant des thèmes allant de l’Antiquité à l’époque moderne, de l’Inquisition et de Jeanne d’Arc aux préjugés anti-ouvriers des manuels d’Histoire contemporains, en passant par la ‘mort étrange’ du Président américain Zachary Taylor et l’assassinat de John F. Kennedy, cet ouvrage démontre avec force détails fascinants comment passé et présent peuvent se répondre et s’enrichir l’un l’autre, et comment l’Histoire peut être un sujet véritablement passionnant et exaltant.

Ernesto Che Guevara

Autor: Enrique Ros

Número de Páginas: 436

Una seria y documentada investigación sobre la vida de Ernesto "Che" Guevara que se desmitifica en estas páginas.

Cuba’s Revolutionary World

Autor: Jonathan C. Brown

Número de Páginas: 391

As Castro’s democratic reform movement veered off course, a revolution that seemed to signal the death knell of dictatorship in Latin America brought about its tragic opposite. Jonathan C. Brown examines in forensic detail how the turmoil that rocked a small Caribbean nation in the 1950s became one of the century’s most transformative events.

North Korea, Tricontinentalism, and the Latin American Revolution, 1959–1970

Autor: Moe Taylor

Número de Páginas: 243

Amidst the Cold War and global decolonization, North Korea and Cuba led a global struggle against US imperialism.

The FBI in Latin America

Autor: Marc Becker

Número de Páginas: 329

During the Second World War, the FDR administration placed the FBI in charge of political surveillance in Latin America. Through a program called the Special Intelligence Service (SIS), 700 agents were assigned to combat Nazi influence in Mexico, Brazil, Chile, and Argentina. The SIS’s mission, however, extended beyond countries with significant German populations or Nazi spy rings. As evidence of the SIS’s overreach, forty-five agents were dispatched to Ecuador, a country without any German espionage networks. Furthermore, by 1943, FBI director J. Edgar Hoover shifted the SIS’s focus from Nazism to communism. Marc Becker interrogates a trove of FBI documents from its Ecuador mission to uncover the history and purpose of the SIS’s intervention in Latin America and for the light they shed on leftist organizing efforts in Latin America. Ultimately, the FBI’s activities reveal the sustained nature of US imperial ambitions in the Americas.

Cuadernos americanos

Número de Páginas: 560

Argentina and the United States

Autor: David M. K. Sheinin

Número de Páginas: 300

In the first English-language survey of Argentine-U.S. relations to appear in more than a decade, David M. K. Sheinin challenges the accepted view that confrontation has been the characteristic state of affairs between the two countries. Sheinin draws on both Spanish- and English-language sources in the United States, Argentina, Canada, and Great Britain to provide a broad perspective on the two centuries of shared U.S.-Argentine history with fresh focus in particular on cultural ties, nuclear politics in the cold war era, the politics of human rights, and Argentina's exit in 1991 from the nonaligned movement. From the perspectives of both countries, Sheinin discusses such topics as Pan-Americanism, petroleum, communism and fascism, and foreign debt. Although the general trajectory of the two countries' relationship has been one of cooperative interaction based on generally strong and improving commercial and financial ties, shared strategic interests, and vital cultural contacts, Sheinin also emphasizes episodes of strained ties. These include the Cuban Revolution, the Dirty War of the late 1970s and early 1980s, and the Falklands/Malvinas War. In his epilogue, Sheinin examines...

Latin Americanism

Autor: Román De La Campa

Número de Páginas: 242

In this timely book, Roman de la Campa asks to what degree the Latin America studied in U.S. academies is actually an entity "made in the U.S.A." He argues that there is an ever-increasing gap between the political, theoretical, and financial pressures affecting the U.S. academy and Latin America's own cultural, political, and literary practices. De la Campa focuses on the conduct of Latin American literary criticism in U.S. universities and compares this with the "Latin Americanism" of Latin America itself.

The FBI Encyclopedia

Autor: Michael Newton

Número de Páginas: 449

The Federal Bureau of Investigation, America's most famous law enforcement agency, was established in 1908 and ever since has been the subject of countless books, articles, essays, congressional investigations, television programs and motion pictures--but even so it remains an enigma to many, deliberately shrouded in mystery on the basis of privacy or national security concerns. This encyclopedia has entries on a broad range of topics related to the FBI, including biographical sketches of directors, agents, attorneys general, notorious fugitives, and people (well known and unknown) targeted by the FBI; events, cases and investigations such as ILLWIND, ABSCAM and Amerasia; FBI terminology and programs such as COINTELPRO and VICAP; organizations marked for disruption including the KGB and the Ku Klux Klan; and various general topics such as psychological profiling, fingerprinting and electronic surveillance. It begins with a brief overview of the FBI's origins and history.

Archipiélago

Número de Páginas: 910

Illegal drug trade - The War on Drugs

Autor: Heinz Duthel

Número de Páginas: 624

Illegal Drug Trade The War on Drugs Author Heinz Duthel Illegal drug trade Black market Drug Opium Heroin Capital punishment for drug trafficking Cannabis (drug) Antonio Maria Costa Drug cartel Legality of cannabis Cannabis Golden Triangle (Southeast Asia) French Connection Ike Atkinson Methamphetamine Clandestine chemistry Rolling meth lab Temazepam Benzodiazepine War on Drugs Cocaine Coup Che Guevara Project MKULTRA Psychoactive drug Coca Luis Carlos Galán Jaime Pardo Leal Bernardo Jaramillo Ossa Álvaro Gómez Hurtado Carlos Pizarro Leongómez Medellín Cartel Cali Cartel Norte del Valle Cartel Pablo Escobar Gilberto Rodríguez Orejuela Miguel Rodríguez Orejuela José Santacruz Londoño Money laundering Valle del Cauca Department Diego León Montoya Sánchez Wilber Varela Juan Carlos Ramírez Abadía Barranquilla Alberto Santofimio Proceso 8000 Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo Vicente Fox Felipe Calderón Kevlar Stratfor Tijuana Cartel Beltrán-Leyva Cartel Sinaloa Cartel Juárez Cartel La Familia Michoacana Gulf Cartel Los Zetas Cartel Knights Templar Cartel Enrique Plancarte Solís Servando Gómez Martínez Los Negros Edgar Valdez Villarreal Noé Ramírez Mandujano SIEDO José ...