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The Spaniards pursued the Indians with bloodhounds, like wild beasts; they sacked the New World with no more temper or compassion than a city taken by storm; but destruction must cease, and frenzy be stayed; the remnant of the Indian population which had escaped the massacre mixed with its conquerors, and adopted in the end their religion and their
... See moreAlexis de Tocqueville • Democracy in America, Volume I and II (Optimized for Kindle)
As mining took off – triggered by the discovery in 1985 of a giant gold deposit – the miners enjoyed official backing too. “It was another world then, even for us Brazilians. To get to Roraima you had to cross the entire Amazon”, said Ramalho. Between 1987 and 1990, 30,000–40,000 garimpeiros arrived in the state. Airforce personnel helped them esta
... See moreRichard Lapper • Beef, Bible and bullets: Brazil in the age of Bolsonaro
The Silence and the Scorpion: The Coup Against Chavez and the Making of Modern Venezuela
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Lorenzo de’ Medici, eager to navigate the swirling rivalries and alliances among the Italian city-states, saw Florence’s artistic culture as a source of influence. Botticelli and some of his other favorite artists went to Rome to please the pope, Verrocchio and others to Venice. Leonardo and Atalante were probably part of a February 1482 diplomatic
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The major discovery produced by the survey was a gap in the mountains some thirteen miles from Panama City that was only 275 feet above sea level. This was a good two hundred feet lower than what heretofore had been the lowest known pass at Panama, and, as further explorations and further surveys would verify, it was, except for one at Nicaragua, t
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“The means of arriving at a tyranny,” he also says, “is to gain the confidence of the multitude, and one does this by declaring himself the enemy of the rich. This was the course of Peisistratus at Athens, of Theagenes at Megara, and of Dionysius at Syracuse.”583 The tyrant always made war upon the rich. At Megara, Theagenes surprises the herds of
... See moreNuma Denis Fustel de Coulanges • The Ancient City: A Study of the Religion, Laws, and Institutions of Greece and Rome (Illustrated)
Durante un buen tiempo, antes de que apareciera Howard Hunt, su único contacto fue Kevin L. Smith, el director de la United Fruit en Honduras. Él le hizo saber que «ellos» lo habían elegido finalmente a él para que dirigiera el Ejército Liberacionista. El mismo Smith lo llevó en su avión particular a Florida, donde, diecinueve kilómetros al norte d
... See moreMario Vargas Llosa • Tiempos recios (Spanish Edition)
Cuando, el 18 de junio de 1954, las tropas del Ejército Liberacionista de Castillo Armas cruzaron por tres lugares la frontera de Honduras, el nuevo embajador de Estados Unidos nombrado por la administración de Eisenhower, John Emil Peurifoy, llevaba ya siete meses en Guatemala. Sin exageración podía decirse que con su energía siempre en efervescen
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