La guerra perdida contra las drogas

The riveting story of Ferdinand Magellan’s historic 60,000-mile ocean voyage—now updated with a new introduction commemorating the 500th anniversary of his journey. “Prodigious research, sure-footed prose and vivid descriptions make for a thoroughly satisfying account... it is all here in the wondrous detail, a first-rate historical page turner.”— New York Times Book Review Ferdinand Magellan's daring circumnavigation of the globe in the sixteenth century was a three-year odyssey filled with sex, violence, and amazing adventure. Now in Over the Edge of the World, prize-winning...

Venezuela ha dependido, desde su nacimiento, de la influencia del personalismo. Encumbrada sobre las instituciones, sobre las urgencias de la economía y las propuestas de los intelectuales, la voluntad de un hombre poderoso y usualmente armado hasta los dientes ha determinado la marcha de la sociedad sin encontrar mayores resistencias, o contando con masivo entusiasmo. Para los venezolanos ha sido una vivencia recurrente la sujeción a una cadena de reyezuelos, hasta el punto de que pueda explicarse un extenso tramo de su historia como un hábito de prosternación, como el traspaso de los...

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