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1) La llorona
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Criterion collection volume 1156
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A country's bloody history stains the present in the Guatemalan auteur Jayro Bustamante's transfixing fusion of folk horror and searing political commentary, inspired by the real-life indictment of the authoritarian Efraín Ríos Montt for crimes against humanity. A notorious, now aging former military dictator stands trial for atrocities committed against Guatemala's Mayan communities. While battling legal repercussions and the people's demands for...
2) Genocidio
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Examines current controversies surrounding genocide, chronicling the practice's history and providing a detailed analysis of what needs to be done by the international community in order to prevent future genocidal occurrences.
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Entre los papeles encontrados el doctor nazi Joseph Mengele hay un diario escrito en cuadernos infantiles de una mujer llamada Helene Hanneman. Se trata de una enfermera alemana casada con un hombre gitano, deportada en la primavera de 1943 al Campo Gitano de Birkenau Auschwitz II. Sector BII e. En el diario Helene describe los diecisEis meses de su estancia en el Campo de Exterminio. Helene estA a punto de despertar a sus hijos para que vayan al...
4) Insensatez
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Colección Andanzas volume 582
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Sin pensárselo dos veces, y sin prever hasta qué punto esa decisión cambiará su vida, el protagonista de Insensatez acepta un comprometido encargo de su amigo Erick: revisar la versión final de un informe que consigna el genocidio padecido por los pueblos indígenas de un país centroamericano. Así, instalado en una exigua habitación del arzobispado de la ciudad, el protagonista se enfrenta a más de mil cuartillas que reproducen denuncias...
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"No se elige ser un migrante; a veces es la única opción entre la vida o la muerte. En esta encrucijada, uno se deja llevar, sin siquiera saber por qué se tiene que partir. Por eso, muchos migrantes en el mundo llevan un dolor en el cuerpo que se asoma por los ojos cuando piensan en las cosas que quedaron atrás." --
"You do not choose to be a migrant; Sometimes it is a life or death choice. When necessary, you let yourself go, without even knowing...
6) La llorona
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Criterion collection volume 1156
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A country's bloody history stains the present in the Guatemalan auteur Jayro Bustamante's transfixing fusion of folk horror and searing political commentary, inspired by the real-life indictment of the authoritarian Efran̕ Ro̕s Montt for crimes against humanity. A notorious, now aging former military dictator stands trial for atrocities committed against Guatemala's Mayan communities. While battling legal repercussions and the people₂s demands...
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Draws on previously sealed records to prove that Joseph Stalin deliberately created his agricultural collectivization project to commit genocidal acts against the Ukrainians, citing the millions of peasants who died from starvation between 1931 and 1933 to solve a Russian political problem.
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"American Indian educator and political philosopher Jack Forbes's Columbus and Other Cannibals was one of the founding texts of the anti-civilization movement when it was first published in 1978. His history of terrorism, genocide, and ecocide told from a Native American point of view has continued to inspire America's most influential activists for decades. Now available for the first time in a Spanish translation, this radical critique of the modern...