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"Simply powerful." Noam Chomsky The Savage Frontier is a book written with courage and dazzling lucidity. One of the best I've ever read." Víctor Hugo Morales Fifty years after the publication of How to Read Donald Duck, I am pleased to read a book like The Wild Frontier that explores in detail the less subtle ways in which the United States, for two hundred years, has sought to influence and distort the destiny of our Latin America." Ariel Dorfman The Wild Frontier is not only a journey through the most important events of the last two hundred years that marked the expansion of the ...

When justice is for sale, what remains of democracy? This book delves into the values of democracy, examining the troubling influence of money in politics and exposing how wealth can distort the system, manipulate social doctrines, and silence the common voice. It challenges us to confront inconvenient truths: Is power slipping away from the people? Are special interests taking control? Has it ever been different in contemporary history? What, if anything, is new? Can we respond and move toward a more authentic system? Can we build a true democracy, beyond mere words that serve as façades ...

For centuries, it was asserted that history advanced through the rebellion of the oppressed. Once again, as during the Reconstruction Era following the abolition of chattel slavery in the United States, the world has entered a reverse dynamic: the rebellion of the masters. Under the guise of freedom, merit, and the market, economic, political, and cultural elites have managed to present themselves as victims, while consolidating an increasingly concentrated and less visible power. This book is an organized series of reflections on the foundational myths of liberalism and post-capitalism. ...

“La frontera salvaje es un libro monumental”. Frederico Füllgraf "Simplemente, poderoso". Noam Chomsky "La frontera salvaje es un libro escrito con coraje y deslumbrante lucidez. De lo mejor que he leído en mi vida". Víctor Hugo Morales "A los cincuenta años de la publicación de Para leer al Pato Donald, me alegra leer un libro como La frontera salvaje que explora detalladamente las formas menos sutiles en que Estados Unidos, durante doscientos años, ha buscado influir y torcer el destino de nuestra América Latina". Ariel Dorfman La Frontera Salvaje no es solo un recorrido por ...

“Flies in the Spiderweb is a remarkable book, a powerful denunciation and a harbinger of everything we are experiencing in today's world.” Boaventura de Sousa Santos Flies in the Spiderweb analyzes the narrative hijacking of the modern world from the origins of capitalism to the current post-capitalism. In this journey, the author revisits the birth of private property as a particular and exclusive civilizing paradigm and the commercialization of human and environmental existence as dominant traits of the contemporary individual, passing through the exportation of a northwestern “new ...

1976 podría definirse como una “novela de no ficción” que documenta y reconstruye los eventos centrales de ese año con epicentro en lo que el FBI llamó “La capital del terrorismo”, Miami. Organizada por meses, 1976 inicia con los antecedentes que explican ese año: la mafia cubana de los años 50 para luego centrarse en el eje Miami-Caracas-Santiago, el que hizo posible el atentado con autobomba que terminó con la vida del ministro de Salvador Allende, Orlando Letelier y Ronni Moffitt en Washington, a pocas cuadras de la Casa Blanca, y el atentado que derribó el avión de ...

One day, recovering from a heart attack in his Daytona Beach apartment, Facundo Walsh Ocampo discovers that his identity has been stolen and decides to cross the border into Mexico to meet his replacement. In the search for the forger, he will discover a larger forgery, his own. The ruthless competition for economic success has turned the protagonist into a highly effective robot, without memory and without its own identity. In the same way, the robots equipped with artificial intelligence that he himself sells in Asia replace not only sex but also the love and understanding of their owner ...

Latin American Political Cinema includes an analysis of 18 Latin American films, 18 contemporary classics that represent the non-commercial cinema of this continent. The author analyzes these productions specifically in their social and historical context. Each of the films included in this book posed profound questions about the hegemonic culture of Hollywood and capitalism and Latin American tragic reality as well, while also representing the mature alternative of imperfect Latin American cinema to the superficial and empty perfection of the dominant film industry, to the culture of ...

Este estudio sobre la lucha por los campos semánticos en la narrativa social fue publicado originalmente como tesis por la Universidad de Georgia en el año 2005. Desde entonces, los acontecimientos políticos y sociales y las nuevas tecnologías, como las redes sociales, han ido confirmando la relevancia política e histórica de la lucha semántica (aún sobre el siempre presente peso de los sistemas de producción y consumo) expuesta en este libro. En esta nueva edición no se han introducido cambios relevantes al estudio general. Con sus aciertos y errores, el autor ha decidido ...

Palestine will be the Vietnam of the new generation. Like Vietnam, it will not change global geopolitics, because it will follow other paths, but it will change the way a generation perceives the dominant narrative. The radical change will take longer and will come with the new geopolitical balance or imbalance starting in the middle of this century. Currently, the Palestinian-Israeli conflict is another of those urgent objectives before losing absolute control.

This study on the struggle over semantic fields in social narrative was originally published as a thesis by the University of Georgia in 2005. Since then, political and social events and new technologies, such as social media, have confirmed the political and historical relevance of the semantic struggle (even under the ever-present influence of production and consumption systems) presented in this book. No significant changes have been made to the overall study in this new edition. Despite its successes and failures, the author has decided to present this new English edition of The ...

Plutocracy, Tyrannosaurus Rex of the Anthropocene analyzes the current reality of post-capitalism from the perspective of the hegemonic power and its democracy hijacked by millionaires, lobbies, and the Military-Financial Complex that dominates the domestic politics of the United States and the geopolitics of the West. At the same time, it reflects on the crisis of capitalist civilization that began in the 16th century and of liberal democracies with the return of fascism in its different forms, of anti-Enlightenment as a reaction to a totalitarian "Ancien Régime" and the preceding ...

Cine político latinoamericano incluye el análisis de 18 películas latinoamericanas, 18 clásicos contemporáneos que representan el cine no comercial de este continente. El autor analiza estas producciones particularmente en su contexto social e histórico. Cada una de las películas que se incluyen en este libro plantearon en su momento profundas interrogantes a la cultura hegemónica de Hollywood y del capitalismo, al tiempo que representaron la alternativa madura del Cine imperfecto latinoamericano ante la perfección superficial y vacía de la Industria del cine, de a la cultura del ...

The Same Fire (First International Independent Literary Prize Orizzonte Atlantico for a novel published in 2019) is a bildungsroman novel and an existential autobiography based on the author’s experiences during the last military dictatorship in his country. The real events, names, country, and the subsequent evolution of various tragedies have been altered to protect the truth. With a syntactical structure lacking the relative pronoun (que/that), the novel expresses in language the same functional absences that exist in the absolute memory of its protagonist, the child José Gabriel, ...

1976 could be defined as a “non-fiction novel” that documents and reconstructs the central events of that year with its epicenter in what the FBI called “The capital of terrorism,” Miami. Organized by months, 1976 begins with the background that explains that year: the Cuban mafia of the 1950s, and then focuses on the Miami-Caracas-Santiago axis, which made possible the car bomb attack that ended the lives of Salvador Allende’s minister, Orlando Letelier, and Ronni Moffitt in Washington, a few blocks from the White House, and the attack that brought down Cubana de Aviación plane ...

For almost a century, the Río de la Plata was one of the main destinations for European immigrants, especially those from Spain and Italy fleeing war and poverty. Until the middle of the last century, hundreds of thousands of immigrants arrived in Montevideo seeking to realize their dreams on the other side of the Atlantic. Some managed to amass great fortunes, but others found only nostalgia, loneliness, and more suffering. The Queen of America (Casa de las Américas Prize, 2001) is, if you will, one of those possible stories where the pride and vanity of success are mixed with all the ...

El Genocidio en Gaza es diferente a otros genocidios en la historia. No ocurre en una región geográfica sino en todo el mundo. Al mismo tiempo, el mundo ha sufrido una doble palestinización: los disidentes han sido palestinizados por los poderes nacionales, al tiempo que crecía una conciencia palestinizada del resto del mundo. Palestina es un laboratorio social y geopolítico y su tragedia se ha expandido por rincones insospechados, desde Europa hasta Estados Unidos, pasando por muchos países del Sur Global. Palestina será el Vietnam de la nueva generación. Como Vietnam, no cambiará...

En estos quince relatos, como el pasado, vuelven las perplejidades y obsesiones que el autor ha ido explorando en sus novelas anteriores. El amor y el odio, la nostalgia y la culpa, la justicia y la venganza van formando y erosionando las vidas de cada uno de los personajes que habitan estas historias.

Este libro recoge diferentes momentos en la vida de un escritor y del tiempo que le tocó vivir. Como prefiere definirlo su autor, el mundo que crean y reflejan puede ser caótico, pero el escritor que los entrega al público debe tener un mínimo de convicción en lo que hace, aún sabiendo de las abrumadoras probabilidades de que sus convicciones radiquen en el error.

“Jorge Majfud expone con cristalinidad y profundidad intelectual dónde estamos parados hoy como Humanidad. En este gran juego de ajedrez de poderes guerreristas, llenos de la más cruel ambición donde la vida no tienen valor alguno, tener la posibilidad de acceder a análisis de intelectuales como Majfud nos sostiene, nos anima, nos da la fuerza para reconocer el poder que reside en nosotros como individuos y aún más cuando encontramos la fuerza social generadora de cambios”. Raquel Daruech. Plutocracia, Tiranosaurios del Antropoceno observa y analiza la actual realidad del ...