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A political dissident who was jailed and tortured by Uruguayas military regime, Carlos Liscano movingly recounts those experiences in Truck of Fools. His narrative, a mosaic of brief, powerful vignettes, offers unique insight into the physical and psychological plight of the prisoner, as well as into the mindset of his tormentors. Liscano survived these horrors to become a gifted writer and Uruguayas most well known novelist.
At the beginning of the eighties, in the same period as in Spain for example, the nationalization of the industrial assets of the Ramasa group was being prepared, the debt crisis, the nationalization of the banking system and the country's finances practically paralyzed, in Mexico The country's finances were paralyzed and there was a strong economic crisis due to the international debt of not only the country but Latin America, as well as the nationalization of the banking sector, all as a result of many factors, such as poor management and administration, corruption and impunity.It was a difficult period, which is also known on a continental level as ́ ́The lost decade of Latin America ́ ́.But for Mexico, that painful decade resulted in the decade of the Mexican renaissance, and the discovery of Don Carlos Slim for America and the world.
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