El voluntario

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"Economic hit men,"" John Perkins writes,"" are highly paid professionals who cheat countries around the globe out of trillions of dollars. Their tools include fraudulent financial reports, rigged elections, payoffs, extortion, sex, and murder. They play a game as old as Empire but one that has taken on terrifying dimensions during this time of globalization."" John Perkins should know-he was an economic hit man for an international consulting firm that worked to convince developing countries to accept enormous loans and to funnel that money to U.S. corporations. Once these countries were...

Vida de Teresa de Ávila, modelo de mujer, de escritora y de creyente y reformadora de la vida cristiana de la época.

Escritor, filosofo, adelantado, conversador genial, Macedonio Fernandez supo ser muchas otras cosas. La leyenda de Macedonio encuentra con frecuencia un giro de previsibilidad que las anecdotas demasiado contadas exigen. Los datos verdaderos son dificiles de rastrear, porque este hombre increible, el ultimo exponente de una especie, se paso la vida vagabundeando, mudandose, yendo de un lugar a otro sin dar explicaciones. Su literatura, por otro lado, pese a lo autorreferencial, tiene un caracter desconcertante: sigue multiplicando enigmas, situaciones, sorpresas.El trabajo de escribir una...