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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...

Journalist Juan Cruz confesses in his memoirs, Scrambled Egos, that while he was very young began to be curious to inquire on the most hidden of the creators, to know their concerns, ambitions, anxieties and obsessions. Today, after forty years of dedication to cultural journalism, and after six years as head of a prestigious publishing house, that curiosity for the soul of the artists or the vagaries of literary creation is still as alive as ever, but now enriched by the experience who had the fortune to interview, accompanied as editor and, ultimately, learn about authors from the European...

En El héroe improbable Mauricio Sabaj indaga en la vida y en la trayectoria política de Alejandro Atchugarry: los humildes orígenes familiares, la infancia donde ya sorprendía por su inteligencia, la temprana formación intelectual, la simbiosis política con Jorge Batlle, el hombre de Estado, el legislador prestigioso, la infinita paciencia para las grandes negociaciones del país que contrastaba con sus explosiones de ira por asuntos cotidianos. Narra las circunstancias que lo llevaron a asumir como ministro de Economía, el reconocimiento popular como el salvador de la crisis, los...

Leonardo Haberkorn retoma a través de esta Herencia maldita, historias de los años duros, el análisis de un tema que circunda la memoria uruguaya de las últimas décadas. La secuencia de documentos y testimonios desnuda, entre varios temas, una ausencia de verdades y una profusión de fisuras que quizás nunca se cierren. Recopiladas a lo largo de décadas, el libro reúne voces y testimonios de primera mano, de protagonistas que hoy ya no están, historias secretas que algunos prefirieron llevarse a la tumba. La llamada 'historia reciente' carece de un relato totalizador y en su lugar...