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Hoffnungsträger der Dritten Welt oder rücksichtsloser Despot? Fidel Castro, Máximo Líder der kubanischen Revolution, polarisiert wie kaum eine andere Figur des 20. Jahrhunderts. Er hat unzählige Mordanschläge, die Amtszeit von zehn US-Präsidenten und den Zusammenbruch der Sowjetunion überlebt. Diese Biografie zeigt, wie Castro seine charismatische Herrschaft im Spannungsfeld der Supermächte begründen, verfestigen und trotz aller Krisen bis in die Gegenwart ausbauen konnte. Dabei präsentiert der Autor neue Quellen und wertet erstmals die spanischsprachige Sekundärliteratur aus, die ...

Se rescatan y amplían distintas evidencias sobre el Tabasco antiguo, la Colonia, la Independencia y la Revolución; sobre el comercio, la piratería y la cultura; sobre la economía y la política. la apertura de nuevos archivos y el acceso a nuevo material bibliográfico han permitido contar con una obra mejor acabada.

Ciudad Juarez lies just across the Rio Grande from El Paso, Texas. A once-thriving border town, it now resembles a failed state. Infamously known as the place where women disappear, its murder rate exceeds that of Baghdad. Last year 1,607 people were killed, a number that is on pace to increase in 2009. In Murder City, Charles Bowden, one of the few journalists who has spent extended periods of time in Juarez, has written an extraordinary account of what happens when a city disintegrates. Interweaving stories of its inhabitants, a raped beauty queen, a repentant hitman, a journalist fleeing...