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The bloody story of the rise of paramilitaries in Colombia, told through three characters—a fearless activist, a dogged journalist, and a relentless investigator—whose lives intersected in the midst of unspeakable terror.

História resumida do Brasil é um convite para entender melhor a diversidade e a complexidade do nosso país. Ao longo de cada capítulo, refletiremos sobre um momento diferente da história do Brasil, oferecendo novas perspectivas a respeito das histórias que compõem nossa identidade nacional em uma rica jornada de aprendizado.

Sir Walter Ralegh was a favorite of Queen Elizabeth. She showered him with estates and political appointments. He envisioned her becoming empress of a universal empire. She gave him the opportunity to lead the way. In Walter Ralegh, Alan Gallay shows that, while Ralegh may be best known for founding the failed Roanoke colony, his historical importance vastly exceeds that enterprise. Inspired by the mystical religious philosophy of hermeticism, Ralegh led English attempts to colonize in North America, South America, and Ireland.

Venezuela—a land of stunning natural beauty and the world’s largest proven oil reserves—has become a symbol of both immense promise and dramatic collapse. Venezuela: History, Crisis, and Opportunity unravels the gripping story of how a nation rich in resources was brought to its knees, and how it might rise again.

I Was Born in the Forest encapsulates the freedom struggle of Africans brought to the Americas in the bowels of slave ships from Congo, Angola, and other parts of Central Africa. In the seventeenth century, many defied the odds by escaping and establishing Afrocentric communities in the mountains in Brazil. Palmares, the most notable among them, existed from 1605 to 1694.

Audiolivro objetivo e ágil, engajado e muito bem documentado, trata das questões centrais da História da Escravidão no Brasil. A obra de Jaime Pinsky aborda temas como o tráfico, a vida cotidiana dos escravos no trabalho e na senzala, a vida sexual e a resistência oferecida pelos negros contra a opressão. O autor, não aceita, contudo, a ideia, defendida por certos historiadores, de que a escravidão permitia relações harmoniosas entre senhores e escravos: no audiolivro, ele revela o caráter cruel da escravidão e sua influência perversa na formação de nossa sociedade.

While Americans have been deeply absorbed with the topic of immigration for generations, emigration from the United States has been almost entirely ignored. Following the US Civil War, an estimated 10,000 Confederates left the US South, most of them moving to Brazil, where they became known as Confederados, Portuguese for “Confederates”. These Southerners were the largest organized group of White Americans to ever voluntarily emigrate from the United States.

Operación Masacre ist das Resultat von Rodolfo Walshs journalistischen und kriminalistischen Nachforschungen in einem politischen Massenmord des Jahres 1956 und inzwischen ein Klassiker der Gattung literarischer Tatsachenberichte (testimonio), der leider von unverminderter Aktualität in der Aussage ist.

La guerra del Paraguay de 1864-1870 fue la guerra más sangrienta entre naciones de la historia de Sudamérica. Descubra cómo el pequeño Paraguay tenía un tirano con un ego gigantesco y el mayor ejército del continente, y cómo y por qué invadió Brasil y Argentina. Entérese sobre la mayor batalla naval de la historia de Sudamérica y sobre la fortaleza paraguaya llamada el Gibraltar de Sudamérica.

This is the riveting true story of grave robbers who discovered and plundered Sipan Temple, and Dr. Walter Alva, the resourceful, strong-willed archaeologist who attempts to excavate the remains of the site while under siege by smugglers and collectors. Archaeology buffs as well as adventure-novel listeners will delight in this true-crime thriller.

Simón Bolívar truly earned his nickname “The Liberator” for a large portion of South American people. He was a forward-thinking political figure at a time when Spain was ruling over the region that is now comprised of Venezuela, Peru, Ecuador, Panama, and Colombia. Bolívar’s revolutionary thoughts and belief system are what gave so many who lived in that part of the continent their independence and the freedom to enact their own governments with their own laws. Few people in history have achievements that can rival the ones made by this hero of the Latin American people.

Esta es la crónica del nacimiento y crecimiento de la guerrilla a comienzos de los setenta, y de un día feliz: el 25 de mayo de 1973, cuando asume Cámpora y cuando los presos políticos por las primeras acciones armadas salen en libertad gracias a la presión popular y a un indulto que no había firmado... ¡nadie!

Este libro hilvana en tres tomos la historia contemporánea de Ecuador. La realidad social, política y económica de los últimos 25 años narrada con un estilo ágil y atractivo. Será difícil encontrar otra obra en la que se haya sistematizado tanta información de los hechos que marcaron al Ecuador y, en parte, a América Latina, entre 1990 y 2015. Kintto Lucas nos entrega un relato, a veces como protagonista directo, y otras mirando desde el ejercicio periodistico, pero siempre comprometido con el momento histórico que le tocó vivir y asumiendo una mirada estratégica. Se puede leer...

El libro fundamental del escritor y estadista Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, en el que, sobre la biografía del caudillo Facundo Quiroga, traza su tesis sobre civilización y barbarie en Argentina.

Alfredo Jocelyn-Holt, en El Chile perplejo, realiza un análisis histórico que va desde los años cincuenta hasta nuestros días para analizar cómo el malestar subterráneo que se esparció en el país pudo provocar conflictos mayúsculos, llevar a la toma de decisiones arbitrarias, quiebres institucionales e incluso a una pérdida de sentido político. Con una pluma audaz, el autor hace una interpretación polémica, prolija y documentada, e interpela al lector, conversa con él y propone una visión liberal de la historia.

Conquistadores (or Conquistadors) were the Spanish and Portuguese conquerors who invaded parts of the world that hadn’t been discovered by the Europeans before the 16th century. Some were incentivized by greed, lust, and dominance, which caused them to pillage, steal, and enslave the indigenous people they encountered. In this audiobook, you will learn more about one infamous sadist in particular: Francisco Pizarro, who abused and attacked the Peruvian peoples, acted as an inquisitor for the Catholic Church, and inflicted physical and psychological wounds on his subjects.

Hacia 1490, la muerte del inca Huayna Cápac y el príncipe Ninan Cuyochi fueron el detonante de la espantosa guerra civil entre Huáscar y Atahualpa, los otros príncipes aspirantes al trono. Este problema, inesperadamente, posibilitó que Francisco Pizarro, que exploraba la zona, se hiciese del imperio más importante de Sudamérica. Le contamos que pasó.

¿Bernardo O'Higgins fue el gran libertador de la patria o todo es un engaño? ¿Hubo a mediados del siglo XX un sacrificio humano en el sur de Chile? ¿Existió en Chiloé una monarquía ocultista con brujos y magia? ¿Dónde se encuentran los símbolos de poder de Chile? ¿Combatió un barco alemán en plena Primera Guerra Mundial en nuestras costas? ¿Cuál es el gran misterio que ronda la vida amorosa y política de Diego Portales?

No Centro Hospitalar Psiquiátrico de Barbacena, conhecido apenas por Colônia, ocorreu uma das maiores barbáries da história do Brasil. O centro recebia diariamente, além de pacientes com diagnóstico de doença mental, homossexuais, prostitutas, epiléticos, mães solteiras, meninas problemáticas, mulheres engravidadas pelos patrões, moças que haviam perdido a virgindade antes do casamento, mendigos, alcoólatras, melancólicos, tímidos e todo tipo de gente considerada fora dos padrões sociais.

The crash of a U.S. reconnaissance plane into the Colombian jungle on February 13, 2003, set off a series of events that, five years later, would bring three South American countries on a collision course toward war, pit a giant government contractor against its employer - the U.S. government - and catapult a 40-year-old guerrilla army to the international stage as one of the most active and successful terrorist organizations in the world.