Un trébol de cuatro hojas

"Carefully researched study of the economic impact of the Chilean occupation of Lima during the War of the Pacific. Looks at banking and the roles of emerging Spanish and Chinese merchants. Concludes that the economic 'ruin' of Lima by the end of the occupation was nearly complete. Suggests that the economic issues of the Chilean occupation were so profound that they played a significant role in delaying the final settlement of the War of the Pacific claims until 1929"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.

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...

Conferencia dictada en el encuentro "Diagnóstico del Problema de la Vivienda en Chile" en la Universidad Católica de Chile, en agosto de 1984.

"No es la historia de los ropajes del poder y la víctima, tampoco, la restauración archivistita de la catástrofe, es lo que ha quedado entre, flotando en las locaciones del pensamiento que reproduce a golpes de chispazos y sonsonetes el dolor magro, hundido de los vencidos. En este libro, no son las grandes transformaciones o los procesos sociopolíticos los narrados -ellos tienen la costumbre de olvidar los cuerpos que sacrifican para realizarse-, sino que individuos solos, arrojados a la penumbra, detenidos por la poética paranoica de un sistema que necesitaba salir a cazar cuerpos para ...