Cowboys and Caudillos

¿Por qué fue mínima la represión en las salidas anticipadas del poder de Abdalá Bucaram (1997), Jamil Mahuad (2000) y Lucio Gutiérrez (2005) en el Ecuador? Este libro explica los principales factores que incidieron en las dinámicas entre los movimientos noviolentos, las Fuerzas Armadas y la Policía de ese país. Se basa en entrevistas a actores de los hechos y en el análisis meticuloso de diversas fuentes periodísticas. Así se espera que esta obra contribuya al análisis de rupturas presidenciales que ocurren en diversos países del mundo, donde se considere la dinámica entre la...

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The Second World War began in August 1939 on the edge of Manchuria and ended there exactly six years later with the Soviet invasion of northern China. The war in Europe appeared completely divorced from the war in the Pacific and China, and yet events on opposite sides of the world had profound effects. Using the most up-to-date scholarship and research, Beevor assembles the whole picture in a gripping narrative that extends from the North Atlantic to the South Pacific and from the snowbound steppe to the North African Desert. Although filling the broadest canvas on a heroic scale, Beevor's...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute...