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El mundo literario chileno de los años 50 a los 70 tras bambalinas a través de la mirada de un testigo privilegiado Hernán Valdés, el autor de Tejas Verdes, convoca a varias generaciones de literatos y sus mundos literarios -los fantasmas-, y nos conduce por una aventura novelesca en la que sus vidas, su cultura, ideas, pasiones y andanzas, aparecen ante nosotros en su inmediato acontecer, en su presente, en las décadas del 50, 60 y 70: pobreza, sueños y amoríos; grandezas y flaquezas en las vidas de Jorge Teillier, Teófilo Cid, Stella Díaz Varín, Enrique Lihn, Pablo Neruda, Esther...

The overthrow of Spanish rule and the birth of new republican governments in northern South America at the beginning of the nineteenth century were in large part the work of one man—Simón Bolívar. Bolívar was not only the soldier who built a patriot army from a small band of exiles and led them victoriously across Venezuela and down the spine of the Andes as far as Potosí; he was also the statesman who framed the new republics that sprang to life after the defeat of the Spanish and who called the Congress of Panama in hopes of making real his dream of uniting all the South American...

El nuevo libro del reconocido periodista Ernesto Ekaizer se adentra en el polémico caso Villarejo y cómo el fiscal Stampa fue apartado por razones políticas. ¿Quién es de verdad el excomisario José Manuel Villarejo, el hombre de las mil identidades? ¿Agente encubierto de inteligencia o CEO del conglomerado de empresas CENYT que ha amasado una fortuna? ¿Cómo y por qué afloran unos audios -32 terabytes o doce tráileres llenos a rebosar de papel— en los cuales Villarejo ha grabado a personalidades de la política, la empresa, la policía y la justicia? ¿Quién es Ignacio Stampa, el ...