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Gangsterismo is an extraordinary accomplishment, the most comprehensive history yet of the clash of epic forces over several decades in Cuba. It is a chronicle that touches upon deep and ongoing themes in the history of the Americas, and more specifically of the United States government, Cuba before and after the revolution, and the criminal networks known as the Mafia. The result of 18 years’ research at national archives and presidential libraries in Kansas, Maryland, Texas, and Massachusetts, here is the story of the making and unmaking of a gangster state in Cuba. In the early 1930s, mobster Meyer Lansky sowed the seeds of gangsterismo when he won Cuban strongman Fulgencio Batista’s ...
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After decades of bloodshed and political terror, many lament the rise of the left in Latin America. Since the triumph of Castro, politicians and historians have accused the left there of rejecting democracy, embracing communist totalitarianism, and prompting both revolutionary violence and a right-wing backlash. Through unprecedented archival research and gripping personal testimonies, Greg Grandin powerfully challenges these views in this classic work. In doing so, he uncovers the hidden history of the Latin American Cold War: of hidebound reactionaries holding on to their power and privilege; of Mayan Marxists blending indigenous notions of justice with universal ideas of equality; and of ...
The book revolves around the issue of present socio economic and political environment under Covid 19 pandemic. It looks into how present pandemic has dismantled modernism in all spheres of human life. The recent outbreak of Covid-19 Pandemic has transformed the world into a village of community with a global tragedy. It has stopped the mobility of civilization with a busy world. The human race that has already conquered even other planets with the assistance of rapid expansion of science and technology has been surprisingly defeated by a virus with the size note more than 32 kilo bates. The impact of highly infectious Corona Virus is not confined within a limited domain of social and global order. It has a far reaching impact upon social psychology and economic, political, cultural and many other spheres of human life. The pandemic Covid-19 has disturbed the political, social, economic, religious and financial structures of the entire world.