Titres dans Amérique du Sud

By the time Christopher Columbus started setting east from the New World, he had explored San Salvador in the Bahamas (which he thought was Japan), Cuba (which he thought was China), and Hispaniola, the source of gold. As the common story goes, Columbus, en route back to Spain from his first journey, called in at Lisbon as a courtesy to brief the Portuguese King John II of his discovery of the New World.

Discover the remarkable history of the Falklands War...The Falklands War, which erupted in 1982, was a conflict between the United Kingdom and the Republic of Argentina over sovereignty of the Falklands, a group of largely uninhabited islands in the South Atlantic. The islands had under two thousand inhabitants and little particular strategic or commercial importance when they became the object of the war. Still, disputes over whether these islands belonged to Great Britain or Argentina had been underway for many years.

En 2008, Txema Guijarro pidió una excedencia en Telefónica, y viajó a Latinoamérica para participar como asesor demoscópico de los candidatos de izquierda en los procesos electorales de Paraguay y El Salvador. Tras acumular experiencia política, pasó a ser analista de la Cancillería de Relaciones Exteriores del Gobierno ecuatoriano de Rafael Correa. El analista describe, desde el punto de vista de un testigo privilegiado, la fenomenal tormenta política, judicial y mediática que enfrentó al Gobierno ecuatoriano de Rafael Correa con Estados Unidos y Reino Unido.

Although he is unquestionably one of the most studied leaders of the 19th century, Simón Bolívar remains today as enigmatic as he was two centuries ago, when his vision and presence largely inspired the overthrow of the Spanish Empire in the New World.

On the evening of May 17, 1980, a day before the Peruvian electorate - the most representative in the nation’s history - was due to go to the polls for the first authentic presidential election since 1963, a curious thing happened. In the tiny mountain town of Chuschi, little more than a hamlet nestled in a valley on the western slopes of the Andes, a group of armed youth broke the lock on the town hall and removed all of the ballot boxes, papers, and voting lists prepared for the following day.

From the precolonial empires of the Tiwanaku and Inca, to the arrival of the Europeans and Bolivia’s journey to its current place in the world, this book examines the rich history and culture of this vibrant country and how the past has shaped it. Covering their campaign for independence, the Chaco war, class struggles, and the abundant natural resources which let them form wealthy mining industries, this audiobook also takes a look at the current issues the country faces and the rampant cocaine industry which has plagued them.

Have you ever thought about visiting South America but just don’t know which country to choose first? Would you like to know more about the heart of South America, the country called Paraguay? The country of Paraguay, though small and often overlooked when considering South America, is a country that boasts of beautiful sights and indigenous people. With its location placing it at almost the centermost position within South America, Paraguay is often referred to by the locals as the “Heart of South America”.

Sir Walter Ralegh was a favorite of Queen Elizabeth. She showered him with estates and political appointments. He envisioned her becoming empress of a universal empire. She gave him the opportunity to lead the way. In Walter Ralegh, Alan Gallay shows that, while Ralegh may be best known for founding the failed Roanoke colony, his historical importance vastly exceeds that enterprise. Inspired by the mystical religious philosophy of hermeticism, Ralegh led English attempts to colonize in North America, South America, and Ireland.

Hay muchos misterios que rodean a los incas. ¿Dónde se originaron? ¿Cómo llegaron a reinar sobre un imperio tan vasto que incluía montañas, selvas tropicales y zonas costeras? ¿Cuáles fueron los logros más destacados de sus grandes reyes? ¿Cómo eran sus templos y monumentos, especialmente la ciudad capital, Cuzco, y su impresionante asentamiento en la cima de la montaña, el Machu Picchu, en lo que hoy es Perú?

Operación Masacre ist das Resultat von Rodolfo Walshs journalistischen und kriminalistischen Nachforschungen in einem politischen Massenmord des Jahres 1956 und inzwischen ein Klassiker der Gattung literarischer Tatsachenberichte (testimonio), der leider von unverminderter Aktualität in der Aussage ist.

Trained by his uncle, an assassin, and initiated in murder at 17 years of age, Julio Santana proved to be a natural. Without moralizing about mass murder, The Name of Death attempts to show how such a career can be not so very different from other ordinary working lives. The portrait that emerges in this riveting narrative based on seven years of phone conversations. Describing in detail only a handful of the almost 500 murders Santana carried out, Cavalcanti reveals just how lawless much of the interior of Brazil has been for the past 50 years.

Dopo cinque anni e mezzo dal suo arrivo al potere, la Presidente della Repubblica del Brasile Dilma Rousseff fu definitivamente allontanata dalla carica. Ad agosto del 2016, dopo un lungo e logorante processo, il Senato brasiliano votò, con un'ampia maggioranza, a favore della sua destituzione.

Sono in tanti a chiedersi cosa stia succedendo oggi nel Venezuela. Le informazioni che arrivano sono spesso allarmanti ma contradditorie. Ci parlano di instabilità politica, di violenza e di lunghe code per acquistare beni di prima necessità. Com'è successo che un Paese così ricco di risorse naturali e con una posizione geografica così strategica sia sprofondato in una crisi economica di queste dimensioni?

Tras la noticia del descubrimiento de América por Colón en 1492, decenas de aventureros emigraron a las nuevas tierras en busca de gloria y riquezas. Uno de ellos, el célebre Hernán Cortés Monroy Pizarro Altamirano, nacido en 1485 en España, sería el protagonista de una verdadera proeza al conquistar el Imperio Mexica, con no más de mil españoles a su mando, un enorme imperio de millones de súbditos.

Toda una época vital de este país latinoamericano en un audio de gran calidad y provecho histórico. Luego de varios siglos de dominación española, las fuerzas vivas del país anhelaban un nuevo futuro donde la independencia sea la principal de las virtudes. Hacia el siglo XIX, los hechos que la desencadenarían estaban a punto de empezar.

La historia de la gesta de independencia más grande de Sudamérica. Luego de tres siglos de dominación española, el 28 de julio de 1821 el general argentino José de San Martín, al mando de la Expedición Libertadora del Perú proveniente de Chile, desembarca en el sur del Perú para proclamar la independencia del Estado Peruano.

Las bravías tierras del actual Paraguay fueron el escenario de uno de los primeros movimientos en pos de la libertad en Sudamérica. Heroica y solitaria, la historia de la independencia de este país mediterráneo es desde muchos puntos de vista, muy diferente a otras. En este audiolibro, le contamos los momentos previos a su emancipación, hasta el fin de los 25 años en que José Francia se mantuvo en el poder.

Reconocido también por ser uno de los 19 países con mayor diversidad biológica del mundo, por ser hábitat de cientos de reina de belleza, y exportadora de petróleo de nivel mundial, el país gobernado por Hugo Chávez pasa por uno de los períodos más polémicos de su existencia gracias al régimen que lo gobierna.

Colombian Killers explores the stories of three men who have forever tainted the lush fields of Latin America. This book narrates the sadistic acts of serial killers Luis Alfredo Garavito, Pedro Alonzo Lopez, and Daniel Camargo Barbosa.

Throughout the centuries, the Amazon has yielded many of its secrets, but it still holds a few great mysteries. In 1996 experts got their first glimpse of one: a lone Indian, a tribe of one, hidden in the forests of Southwestern Brazil. Previously uncontacted tribes are extremely rare, but a one-man tribe was unprecedented. And like all of the isolated tribes in the Amazonian frontier, he was in danger.