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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...

Esta historia real cuenta cmo, veinte aos despus que las tropas inglesas murieran para defender la democracia en la Guerra de Malvinas, un ciudadano britnico se vera forzado a huir de las Islas Malvinas, para escapar de la corrupcin poltica y amenazas de muerte, en bsqueda de democracia y libertad de expresin en Argentina. Cuando un bilogo ingls se atrevi a relacionar la muerte de cinco millones de pinginos por falta de alimento, con la pesca comercial, que estaba enriqueciendo al sector ms poderoso de las Islas Malvinas, se desat un juego de muerte del gato y el ratn. Los intentos fallidos...

Frida Kahlo stepped into the limelight in 1929 when she married Mexican muralist Diego Rivera. She was twenty-two; he was forty-three. Hailed as Rivera’s exotic young wife who “dabbles in art,” she went on to produce brilliant paintings but remained in her husband’s shadow throughout her life. Today, almost six decades after her untimely death, Kahlo’s fame rivals that of Rivera and she has gained international acclaim as a path-breaking artist and a cultural icon. Cutting through “Fridamania,” this book explores Kahlo’s life, art, and legacies, while also scrutinizing the...

Conocer sobre la Dislexia facilita la comprensión sobre el comportamiento de las personas que lo presentan. En el ámbito escolar, representa incertidumbre y desafíos a la hora de entrar al salón de clases. Este libro intenta acercar a los docentes y maestros de apoyo, estrategias y recursos para que la trayectoria escolar de un alumno con dislexia se transite sin altibajos de manera segura. Este libro incluye un cuadernillo con actividades secuenciadas y de formato lúdico, para que el alumno pueda mejorar la lectura, la escritura y la ortografía.