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"A cincuenta años del golpe cívico-militar de 1976, Marea Editorial propone un libro colectivo para decir junto a sus autoras y autores, y con nuestros referentes y maestros, Nunca Más. Porque hoy este enunciado se resignifica a la luz del negacionismo y el abierto apoyo a la dictadura que comenzo a tener visibilidad en la Argentina. Dijimos Nunca Mas es una antologia coral que reune a 80 voces activas de la cultura argentina que aportaron textos y material grafico (en su gran mayoria inedito) sobre la dictadura, el terrorismo de Estado, las victimas, las mentiras construidas desde el poder y las persistencias de aquel horror en el presente. Un libro para atesorar y volver a decir juntos, lectores y autores: Nunca Mas" (Prologo de: Taty Almeida y Adolfo Perez Esquivel). Escriben en esta obra: Santiago Adano Maria Teresa Andruetto Analia Argento Patricio Barton Florencia Battiti Mabel Bellucci Angel Berlanga Guillermo Blanco Fernando Borroni Myriam Bregman Marcelo Brodsky Hernan Brienza Constanza Brunet Marcela Bublik Oche Califa Juan Carra Jorge Caterbetti Marcos Cittadini Julia Coria Pablo Corso Ian Debiase Debret Viana Elsa Drucaroff Veronica Estay Stange Edgardo Esteban Daniel Feierstein Mempo Giardinelli Jorge Giles Dante Ginevra Ariel Goldstein Rodolfo Gomez Ulises Gorini Fabian Grillo Eduardo Gruner Sebastian Hacher Monica Hasenberg Liliana Heker Roberto Herrscher Alejandro Horowicz Federico Jeanmaire Sergio Langer Nicolas Lantos Guillermo Levy Maria Eugenia Ludueña Alejandra Lunik Lv Rod Sergio Maldonado Evangelina Margiolakis Claude Mary Gabriela Massuh Matias Maximo Ines Menendez Hopenhayn Adriana Meyer Emilce Moler Gabriela Naso Victoria Torres Panchopepe Pedro Peretti Mariana Pinto Lucero Ricardo Ragendorfer Santiago Rey Marcos Rosenzvaig Catalina de Sanctis Daniel Santoro Kaloian Santos Juan Sasturain Luis Scafati Carlos Skliar Juan Soto Gustavo Sylvestre Alejandro Tarruella Carlos Ulanovsky Luisa Valenzuela Mariana Zaffaroni Islas Eduardo Zanini.

En Brasil. Un país de futuro, Stefan Zweig presenta un ensayo que destaca la riqueza cultural y la promesa socioeconómica del país sudamericano en las décadas de 1930 y 1940. A través de un estilo narrativo elegante y persuasivo, Zweig ofrece una vision optimista de Brasil, describiendolo como un crisol de culturas diversas y un territorio lleno de potencial inexplorado. El libro se contextualiza en una epoca en que los conflictos globales nublaban el horizonte de muchas naciones, lo que refuerza el mensaje esperanzador que el autor intenta comunicar. Stefan Zweig, un escritor y biografo austriaco, fue un prolifico literato cuya vida y obra estuvieron marcadas por el exilio. Perseguido por su origen judio durante el ascenso del nazismo, Zweig encontro en Brasil un refugio que influyo profundamente en su percepcion de la tierra y su gente. Este trasfondo personal es crucial para entender su perspectiva en Brasil: Un pais de futuro, ya que retrata al pais como un bastion de paz y armonia en medio de un mundo fracturado. Recomiendo vivamente la lectura de este libro, ya que ofrece una comprension profunda y detallada de Brasil desde la mirada de un observador externo. La obra es una evocacion del potencial humano en tiempos turbulentos y una prueba del talento de Zweig para capturar y transmitir la esencia de un pais que todavia tiene relevancia hoy en dia.

Con la llegada a Yucatán del colonizador Francisco de Montejo en 1527 y el posterior dominio ejercido por las élites españolas, los mayas vieron exacerbados los atroces abusos en su contra; tiempo despues, ni siquiera el fi n del Virreinato o el establecimiento de la Republica lograron mejorar la condicion de los indigenas. Cansados de siglos de atropellos, en 1847 un grupo de mayas rebeldes, conocidos como cruzoob, tomo el control de la ciudad Chan Santa Cruz, estableciendo su propio gobierno de estructura teocratica y un particular sistema judicial. En La guerra de castas en Yucatan, Francisco Gonzalez Gomez analiza el levantamiento y la lucha posterior, y explora las causas y las consecuencias de ese movimiento en Yucatan.

La complejidad del México colonial, cuya gestación se prolonga durante los siglos XVI a XVIII, en general ha sido descuidada ante el prestigioso ascendiente de los antepasados prehispánicos. Para Serge Gruzinski resulta claro que la mayoria de los historiadores y etnologos con notables excepciones, como Gonzalo Aguirre Beltran ha pasado por alto la decisiva revolucion de los modos expresivos de la Colonia, cuando ocurre el paso de la pictografia a la escritura alfabetica. La occidentalizacion del mundo indigena nos advierte Gruzinski acaso nos condene a hundirnos en una maraña de riesgosas hipotesis al intentar una interpretacion cabal del mundo indigena. Pero tambien, al modificarse necesariamente sus relaciones con el tiempo y el espacio, hace surgir cuestiones inquietantes: hasta que punto dicha transformacion expresiva modifico la percepcion indigena de lo real y de lo imaginario. Serge Gruzinski confiere aqui un relieve inusitado a las manifestaciones sincreticas del Mexico colonial, superando las perspectivas que reducen los diversos mundos indigenas a la rigidez de estadisticas y modelos conceptualmente caducos.

En nuestros días resulta común referirse a las raíces geográficas, económicas o políticas como aquellos vínculos que permiten a un amplio grupo de personas sentirse parte de una sociedad. Y, sin embargo, es innegable que solo nuestra historia la historia de Latinoamerica puede dar cuenta de un pasado y un futuro comun; un pasado que ha suscitado tanta fascinacion como asombro y que se ha construido sobre la base de las creencias, la lengua y la cultura hispanica y lusitana que un grupo de europeos en busca de gloria y aventura trajeron consigo y terminaron por integrar, en mayor o menor medida, a la cultura de la poblacion nativa. Pese a ello, han sido pocos los libros que reunan de forma concisa pero profunda los escenarios y los personajes fundamentales que, en su conjunto, ofrezcan un panorama general de nuestro pasado como esta Historia de America Latina. Edwin Williamson no busca el analisis exhaustivo y total de una realidad que por su complejidad cultural y amplitud geografica y temporal rebasaria por mucho la extension de este fascinante cuadro. Su obra es la introduccion practica que ofrece al lector las herramientas para adentrarse en esa complejidad que el articula brillantemente con una capacidad narrativa que no escapa a los objetivos de todo relato historico: interpretar el pasado, acercarlo a los seres humanos y buscar la verdad.

Durante la segunda Guerra Mundial, las costas del Pacífico mexicano eran un territorio de interés estratégico tanto para los Estados Unidos como para las potencias del Eje. Cuando la aviación japonesa ataco Pearl Harbor y los estadunidenses entraron de lleno a la guerra, el interes se convirtio en un asunto de seguridad vital para nuestros vecinos del norte que intentaron establecer bases militares y sistemas defensivos en territorio mexicano. Al enterarse de esta noticia, el ex presidente Lazaro Cardenas se puso a disposicion del presidente Manuel Avila Camacho para reintegrarse al servicio de la nacion y, nuevamente, librar grandes batallas, esta vez diplomaticas, contra los altos mandos del ejercito estadunidense y algunos funcionarios mexicanos con el objetivo de garantizar la seguridad nacional, pero sin ceder ni un apice de soberania del pais ni un palmo de terreno.

Esta obra del historiador inglés está formada por cuatro conferencias en las que se intenta trazar un mapa de la historia intelectual mexicana "por medio de una comparación con el movimiento de ideas de Europa y de otras partes de Hispanoamerica". Incluye tambien cuatro apendices que complementan temas como el nacionalismo revolucionario, o tratan de la relacion de los intelectuales mexicanos y el poder.

El 24 de marzo de 1976, las Fuerzas Armadas, encabezadas por Jorge Rafael Videla, dieron un golpe de Estado. Se esperaba que los militares pudieran acabar con el terrorismo de los grupos guerrilleros y las bandas parapoliciales. La intencion manifestada por ellos era restablecer la paz en el pais. Sin embargo, pronto se hizo evidente que se habia puesto en marcha un plan sistematico y clandestino de exterminio de personas, muy lejos de aquella idea inicial, que incluyo secuestros, torturas, desaparicion forzada, detenciones ilegales, la apropiacion ilegitima de bebes y el ocultamiento de su identidad. Toda oposicion al regimen fue silenciada y perseguida; el Congreso y los partidos politicos fueron suprimidos; los gremios y sindicatos, proscriptos; el periodismo, hostigado y censurado. Pese a declarar el deseo de reorganizar la sociedad segun una moral cristiana, los militares llevaron adelante un plan que violaria cualquier idea de ley humana o divina, y que incluia tambien la "purificacion" de la Iglesia. La Junta Militar sabia que no podia sentenciar a muerte a miles de personas y, menos aun, a miles de cristianos, sin que los obispos, la Nunciatura o el Papa alzaran sus voces. Si no se podia lograr el amparo de la Iglesia, al menos era fundamental contenerla. Para poder avanzar y legitimar su accionar, desplegaron frente a ella una estrategia tan premeditada como su plan de exterminio. La violencia previa fue superada por el terrorismo de Estado. Gracias a informacion hasta ahora desconocida, Confesiones de Estado pone al descubierto los cinco pasos de esa estrategia y aporta un nuevo y perturbador aspecto en la relacion entre el gobierno militar y la Iglesia. Omisiones, complicidades, declaraciones ambiguas, revelaciones y silencios que marcaron a la Argentina durante el regimen del terror.

La visión que predomina sobre la última dictadura militar afirma que el presidente de facto –Videla y quienes lo sucedieron– tenía la primacía de las decisiones políticas, mientras el ministro de Eco

In 1587, over a hundred English men, women, and children established a hopeful settlement on Roanoke Island. Three years later, a supply ship arrived to find the colony completely abandoned. There were no bodies, no signs of a massacre, and no burned buildings. The only clue left behind was a single, cryptic word carved into a wooden post: "CROATOAN."The Lost Colony of Roanoke remains the most haunting unsolved mystery in American history. Did the desperate colonists starve to death, attempt a disastrous voyage back to England, or face annihilation by hostile indigenous forces? Modern historians and archaeologists have increasingly pointed to a more practical, yet hidden truth: total assimilation into local Native American tribes to avoid absolute starvation.The failure of Roanoke forced the British Empire to drastically rethink its brutal and unprepared approach to global colonization. It stands as a chilling monument to the arrogance of early European explorers who completely underestimated the lethality of the new world.By peeling back layers of colonial propaganda and recent archaeological soil data, this book reconstructs the final terrifying months of the settlers. Readers will discover the grim logistics of frontier survival and the likely fate of those left behind.

Beneath the cracked, overgrown asphalt of Centralia, Pennsylvania, a massive fire has been burning uninterrupted for over six decades. What began as a routine attempt to burn trash in an abandoned strip mine ignited a labyrinth of underground coal veins, unleashing a slow-moving, unstoppable geothermal apocalypse.The Centralia Inferno documents the harrowing timeline of a community slowly swallowed by toxic gas and collapsing earth. This book investigates the staggering incompetence of local government officials who ignored the subterranean threat until sinkholes literally opened up to swallow children in their backyards.We explore the daunting thermodynamic reality of underground coal fires, explaining why millions of dollars and decades of engineering failed to extinguish the blaze. Readers will confront the eerie, toxic legacy of Americas industrial coal era, discovering how a thriving town was permanently wiped off the map by a fire that will outlive us all.

Deep within the clandestine laboratories of Los Alamos, a fourteen-pound sphere of solid plutonium sat on a table, waiting to be pushed to the brink of a nuclear chain reaction. The scientists who built the worlds first atomic weapons called it "tickling the dragons tail."The Demon Core is the terrifying true story of how unparalleled intellectual brilliance collided with shocking physical recklessness. In 1945 and 1946, two separate physicists, Harry Daghlian and Louis Slotin, accidentally triggered lethal bursts of radiation from the exact same plutonium core. Rather than using precise mechanical safety protocols, they manipulated the volatile metal with ordinary flathead screwdrivers and bare hands. A single slip of the wrist was all it took to seal their agonizing fates.This book dissects the horrifying physics of criticality accidents and the psychological arrogance that plagued the early atomic frontier. It reveals how the men who understood the terrifying power of radiation better than anyone else on Earth routinely ignored their own safety warnings.Explore the gripping, tragic history of the most dangerous object ever created, and witness how human overconfidence turned a triumph of science into an instrument of personal destruction.

Long before European settlers arrived, a massive, highly organized metropolis thrived along the banks of the Mississippi River. Larger than London was at the time, this city featured monumental earthen pyramids, complex astronomical observatories, and a sprawling trade network that spanned the continent. Yet, history books have largely forgotten it.The Metropolis of Cahokia explores the breathtaking rise and catastrophic fall of the greatest indigenous civilization in North America. It investigates how the ruling elite engineered absolute power by monopolizing spiritual ceremonies and crucial resources, building a society that was as deeply stratified as it was architecturally magnificent.This book pieces together the archaeological puzzles left behind in the soil, from mass sacrificial graves to intricate urban planning. It details the ecological hubris and internal political fractures that eventually caused the entire civilization to abandon their grand city and vanish into the wilderness.By confronting the erasure of indigenous history, readers will gain a profound appreciation for the complexity of pre-Columbian America and the fragile nature of urban empires.

Long before Chernobyl or Fukushima dominated global headlines, the atomic age claimed its first catastrophic victims in the freezing deserts of Idaho. In the dead of night, an isolated experimental military reactor violently exploded, instantly killing three operators and permanently altering the trajectory of American nuclear power.The SL-1 reactor incident was not caused by a massive systemic failure, but by a terrifyingly simple human action: the manual withdrawal of a single, highly sensitive control rod just a few inches too far. This book dissects the physics of the steam explosion, the grueling rescue operation in an environment flooded with unimaginable radiation, and the dark rumors of sabotage and personal jealousy that haunted the investigation.Uncover the brutal realities of the early atomic frontier, where ambitious engineering collided with fundamental human flaws. It reveals the chilling complacency of the militarys nuclear program and the desperate scramble to understand an entirely new category of industrial disaster.Explore the gripping forensic investigation of the meltdown that forced the world to finally respect the unforgiving power of the split atom.

In the late 19th century, the American West was a lawless frontier not just for outlaws, but for scientists. Beneath the dirt lay the greatest biological treasures ever discovered, and two brilliant paleontologists were willing to destroy each other to claim them.The Bone Wars is the incredible true story of Othniel Charles Marsh and Edward Drinker Cope, whose obsessive rivalry escalated into a campaign of bribery, theft, and destruction. They hired spies, destroyed excavation sites with dynamite to prevent the other from finding fossils, and publicly smeared each other in academic journals. Their mutual hatred bankrupted them both, but it also resulted in the discovery of over 130 new dinosaur species, entirely rewriting human understanding of prehistoric life.This book delves into the chaotic birth of modern paleontology. It exposes the extreme lengths to which brilliant minds will go when driven by ego and the desire for academic immortality.Discover the violent, untold history behind the dinosaur skeletons displayed in museums today, and witness how petty jealousy accidentally built the foundation of American science.

The morning of January 12, 1888, was unseasonably warm across the Dakota and Nebraska territories. Encouraged by the balmy weather, thousands of pioneer children walked miles to their one-room schoolhouses without heavy winter coats. Within hours, a monstrous, fast-moving cold front collided with the warm air, plunging temperatures below zero and unleashing a blinding wall of ice crystals.This harrowing historical account documents the devastating mechanics of the "Childrens Blizzard." It dissects the meteorological anomaly that caught the early United States Weather Bureau completely off guard. It explores the terrifying reality of whiteout conditions, where visibility drops to zero and a person can freeze to death just ten feet from their own front door.You will uncover the desperate sociological dynamics of isolated pioneer communities pushed to their absolute physical limits. The text reveals how this single afternoon of atmospheric violence forced the immediate modernization of national weather forecasting and reshaped the harsh reality of western expansion.Step into the freezing heart of the frontier. Understand the unpredictable wrath of nature and the resilient spirit required to survive the deadliest winter storm in American history.

On a deceptively mild January morning in 1888, children across the American Midwest walked to school without their coats. Hours later, temperatures plummeted by forty degrees in a matter of minutes, trapping thousands in blinding, deadly whiteout conditions.The tragedy exposed a fatal flaw in the expanding nation: the United States had no unified system to warn its citizens of rapid meteorological shifts. The resulting public outrage forced a technological reckoning that changed the infrastructure of survival forever.This book traces the forgotten history of how a localized tragedy birthed the modern weather warning system. It explores the frantic race to connect isolated farming communities to a centralized telegraphic grid, turning copper wires into the first atmospheric defense mechanism.Readers will uncover the brilliant, frantic efforts of early signalmen and scientists who battled government bureaucracy and primitive technology to map the sky. Discover how the invisible architecture of crisis communication was forged in ice, forever altering how humanity anticipates the storms of tomorrow.

The term "Banana Republic" is often used today as a casual political insult, but its origins lie in a terrifyingly literal reality. At the dawn of the twentieth century, a single American agricultural corporation amassed enough wealth and power to completely subjugate sovereign nations for the sake of cheap fruit.The United Fruit Company did not just export bananas; it exported total corporate imperialism. By controlling railroads, ports, and communications infrastructure across Central America, the corporation dictated terms to local governments, engineered political coups against uncooperative leaders, and utilized private armies to violently crush labor strikes that threatened their astronomical profit margins.This historical expose unveils the ruthless corporate mechanics behind the creation of the banana republics. It details the companys brilliant manipulation of the American consumer market, its deep, corrupt ties to Washington politics, and the devastating long-term economic scars left on nations like Guatemala and Honduras.Explore the darkest chapter of corporate agricultural dominance. Learn how an insatiable demand for a tropical luxury fruit birthed a monolithic shadow empire, and understand the historical precedents of multinational corporations operating above the law.

On a quiet Sunday evening in 1938, millions of Americans tuned their radios to a seemingly standard musical broadcast, only to be interrupted by horrifying news bulletins. Martian cylinders had crashed in New Jersey, and alien war machines were annihilating the military. Panic consumed the nation as citizens fled their homes, convinced the world was coming to a fiery, brutal end.This legendary broadcast laid bare a terrifying vulnerability: the publics absolute, unquestioning trust in authoritative media formats. Orson Welles brilliantly weaponized the trusted structure of breaking news to bypass logic entirely. The ensuing hysteria proved that when fiction perfectly mimics the architecture of truth, the human mind is utterly defenseless against the panic of the herd.This book forensically reconstructs the night that changed mass media forever. It analyzes the psychological triggers used in the script, the sociological climate of a nation already on the brink of war, and the immediate, chaotic fallout on the streets.Sharpen your media literacy against the modern echoes of this deception. Understand how formatting and context manipulate your perception of reality, question the authoritative voices broadcasting into your life, and build cognitive immunity against manufactured panic.

How did the shooting of a single, wandering pig on a remote island almost ignite a massive, catastrophic war between the United States and the British Empire? The absurd reality of this conflict exposes the extreme fragility of international diplomacy and the dangerous power of local egos.The Bloodless Pig War explores the incredibly tense standoff on San Juan Island in 1859. When an American settler killed a British-owned pig rooting in his garden, a trivial agricultural dispute instantly spiraled into a massive military escalation. Hundreds of heavily armed soldiers and massive warships were deployed over the fate of a dead farm animal.This bizarre chapter of history perfectly illustrates the dangerous mechanics of hyper-masculinity and geopolitical posturing. Both nations were willing to plunge the entire continent into widespread bloodshed simply because neither sides local commanders were willing to back down and lose face. The pig was forgotten, replaced by blind patriotic arrogance.By dissecting the timeline of this ridiculous standoff, the book provides a masterclass in de-escalation and the absurdities of human conflict. Learn how level-headed communication eventually disarmed a situation that had been pushed to the very brink of disaster.