La guerra de rapiña de 1879

They have been complex in recent years for Chile, especially if we add corporate corruption and the discrediting of republican politics and institutions to the erosion of the government projects of the Concertación and the New Majority. Therefore, during a year of elections, critical reflection on the representativeness of the Poder Legislativo and, especially, the one hundred and twenty "honorable" representatives that allow or impede changes in our country become urgent. In this detailed and no less ironic analysis, the journalist Nancy Guzmán bares with humor what each deputy does and...

A catalog of books deposited in the library under law of 1872; and, from 1891-1898, books by Chilean authors, or relating to Chile, published in other countries.

"El presente Sumario, volumen cuatro de la colección Letras del Reino de Chile, es una versión abreviada del manuscrito Historia general del reino de Chile, Flandes Indiano (1674), del jesuita Diego de Rosales. El texto del Sumario permaneció oculto entre los folios del Flandes Indiano resguardados en el Archivo Nacional de Chile, de donde el presente editor lo ha rescatado y editado para darlo a conocer al público. Aunque este manuscrito fue mencionado de manera muy superficial por Benjamín Vicuña Mackenna, primer editor de la obra de Rosales, en 1877, y más tarde por Mario Góngora,...

"An interesting collection of speeches and writings from 1990-93 by the influential, but frequently embattled, 39-year-old leader of the moderate right-wing Renovación Nacional party. Of particular interest are his thoughts on the transition to democracy, human rights abuses and national reconciliation, economic and political development, and developments within the rival Christian Democratic party"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.