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Uno viaja y normalmente lo hace en avión, sobre todo para trayectos internacionales, pero luego se pone a pensar y se da cuenta de que en verdad un viaje en avión se diferencia de otro en los uniformes de la tripulación, si es que uno es capaz de recordar dicho detalle, pues tampoco son diferencias esenciales: si al menos usaran los trajes típicos del país donde está matriculada la aeronave. Considero por ello que la gran epopeya de los viajes se vive en los trayectos por superficie, aunque no sea nada más que un pequeño recorrido de una localidad a otra, y dentro de estos periplos sobre la cara del mal llamado planeta Tierra permitidme que declare mi veneración por el agua, puesto ...
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Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.
An insightful study of the political, economic, and social changes Brazil experienced during the twenty-year rule of its Cold War military regime. Cuba’s revolution in 1959 fueled powerful anti-Communist fears in the United States. As a result, in the years that followed, governments throughout Central and South America were toppled in U.S.-backed military coups, and by 1977 only three democratically elected leaders remained in all of Latin America. This perceptive study, coauthored by a revered historian and a prominent economist, examines how the military rulers of Brazil profoundly altered the nation’s economy, politics, and society during their two decades in power, and it explores the lasting impact of these changes after democracy was restored. Comparing and contrasting the history, programs, methods, and goals of Brazil’s Cold War–era authoritarian government with the military regimes of Peru, Chile, Argentina, Bolivia, and Uruguay, authors Herbert Klein and Francisco Vidal Luna offer a fascinating, detailed analysis of the Brazilian experience from 1964 to 1985, one of the darkest, most difficult periods in Latin American history.