El Provencio, más pan y menos misa

"Porfirio Díaz, president of Mexico (1876-1880, 1884-1911), dominated his country during a crucial phase in its development as a modern nation. This profile places the regime in its appropriate nineteenth-century context, highlighting the difficulty of implementing liberal policies in societies with strong colonial traditions, and of balancing material development with order and stability"--Back cover.

La laberíntica historia del espionaje soviético desde la Revolución de Octubre hasta el final de la guerra fría y su relación con la actualidad política rusa. Desde siempre las investigaciones en el campo del espionaje soviético se han centrado en la KGB y han dejado pasado por alto, en la sombra, a la inteligencia militar y el servicio especial, dedicado en exclusiva a la codificación y el cifrado. Recabando información de fuentes rusas hasta ahora ignoradas, Haslam revela cómo estos dos últimos servicios de inteligencia fueron esenciales para la supervivencia del estado...

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For more than half a century, Cuba has suffered one of the longest-running dictatorships in history, where dozens of political prisoners are held in prison, and the entire population is locked up in a large penitentiary where neither dissent nor disagreement is forgiven, and the dissidents are punished with years in prison or death. It is a new oligarchic class, with a single political party, without elections, with an absolute disregard for Human Rights, without public and civil liberties, making it illegal to be part of the political opposition, with public education in the exclusive hands...