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Este relato de un hombre que finalmente se distinguió del resto de las élites de su país como alguien que no aceptaría la ocupación de Nicaragua y que no haría el papel de perro faldero o títere, explica de una manera muy sencilla los matices en la evolución sociopolítica del país centroamericano que influyó mucho en otras luchas de América Latina. En Augusto C. Sandino vemos el desarrollo de una leyenda que surgió de orígenes humildes y cuyo sentido de la justicia lo guió en su épico viaje de resistencia a las fuerzas opresoras de su país. A pesar de que su traición y ...

In this brave and chilling account of the post-Soviet space, the author provides us with a fascinating insight into Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, and the other republics of the Soviet Union through the larger-than-life character of Boris Petrenkov who leads us by the hand through his world, his mind, and the characters he interacts with. This smooth and fascinating ride into a part of the world that people find mysterious comes with explosive revelations that take us through history from the times of Kievan Rus a millennia ago, to the Golden Horde of the Mongols, czarist Russia, the Soviet ...

Dubbed by many pundits as “The Most Stupid War in the World,” the Ukraine conflict is one that hardly anyone saw coming back in 2010. However, it is close to a decade old already. In this conflict in the evenly divided Ukraine, brinkmanship by the local players in the country, by the West that wants to drag Ukraine into its orbit, and by Russia that fears losing Ukraine and its security in the process, is the norm. At the same time, the world watches in a seemingly helpless manner as Ukraine gets torn apart at the seams. Most of the governments in the West blame Russia for instigating ...

As a German colony from 1884-1916, Kamerun was called "The African Pearl" for its human and material potential, and for its strategic position in Africa. The defeat of Germany in the First World War and the partition of the colony into British Cameroons and French Cameroon did not diminish the area's outsize role in the political and economic evolution of the continent. So, the quest by the land's civic nationalists to reunite the British-controlled and French-controlled territories and make Cameroon independent, raised concerns among the colonialists in Britain and France, who planned to ...

The name Gandhi towers above every other in the political landscape of India for very good reasons. The “Soul” of modern India—Mahatma Gandhi— bore that last name; India’s first and only female prime minister or head of state—Indira Gandhi—married into the name; and Rajiv Gandhi reluctantly made it into politics and became the Prime Minister of India as a Gandhi. They left positive legacies, yet they were assassinated by extremists with exclusive and twisted agendas. And as it turned out, their deaths contributed to the advancement of humanity. What was it about these three ...

In EVEN HIS ENEMIES CRIED: The Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin of Israel, Janvier T. Chando provides the reader with a succinct and insightful account of Yitzhak Rabin that helps us understand his world, the turbulent region he was born in, the complexity of geopolitics and what leadership entails ― confidence, courage, compassion, inspiration, knowledge, understanding, integrity, fairness, motivation. The mind-blowing account takes us through Yitzhak Rabin's journey as a shy boy pushed by the exigencies of his time to become a soldier and play an outstanding role on the battlefields in ...

Cameroon is the only country in Africa where those who campaigned, fought and died for the country's freedom and independence from colonial rule have never made it to power, where the ideas and ideals of these union-nationalists are still being suppressed by the unpopular system the colonial master put in place in the country after defeating these civic-nationalists in a bloody war variously described as France’s genocidal war in Africa. This retarding French-imposed system keeps the country trapped in poverty, corruption, underdevelopment, dictatorship, despondence, and cynicism, thereby...

In Fire and Lamentations, Janvier T. Chando offers readers succinct accounts of the lives, ideals, and untimely deaths of the towering political figures whose assassinations shocked American society, triggered domestic political transformations, and fundamentally altered America foreign policy, so that the United States of America lost its innocence forever. Spanning a century, the shooting deaths of four United States Presidents — Abraham Lincoln, William McKinley, James A. Garfield, and John F. Kennedy — and the country’s soul and the civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr. brought...

No US. Presidential election has been as dramatic as the 2016 race for the White House. Mavericks rose to prominence from the primaries in both the Republican and Democratic camps, challenged the status quo, exposed the follies of the country's political establishment and vowed to bring a new dawn to America. These unorthodox candidates did so without seeking financial assistance from the groups that traditionally financed political candidates in the past elections. The Republican maverick Donald Trump won the nomination of the party he recently joined, against a long list of seventeen ...

When Donald Trump popularized the campaign slogan “Make America Great Again (MAGA) in his 2016 presidential campaign, he anchored it on dozens of campaign promises centered around whisking the United States of America out of its “decline”, as large majorities of Americans believed it was and it is still the case today. THE BARGAIN WITH AMERICA, is an insightful, research-rich and engaging account of the hectic and extraordinary Trump presidency focusing on the promises he made to America and Americans and the challenges that come with living up to his words in an environment replete ...

For a people that lost more than half a million lives in a liberation struggle for the independence and reunification of their country yet failed to shake off the oppressive external forces who allowed self-rule and reunification of British Cameroons and former French Cameroun but put their puppets in power in a so-called independent Cameroon, this country known as “Africa in Miniature” is an Orwellian reality. It is hard for a non-Cameroonian mind to imagine that there are tidy solutions or pithy fixes to the big challenges in overcoming the reactionary forces responsible for ...

PREVALECIÓ: La Victoria de Donald Trump en 2024 es una lectura convincente desde los primeros capítulos, ya que encapsula el viaje político de Donald Trump de una manera perspicaz y electrizante. El autor lleva al lector de la mano a través del viaje del 45º presidente de los Estados Unidos de América para convertirse en el 47º presidente en un proceso que parece desafiar las demandas, los intentos de asesinato, la maquinaria de los medios de comunicación tradicionales, el establishment político y los "Poderes sin rostro". Desafiando la propaganda, permaneciendo indiferente a las ...

This account of Muammar Gaddafi takes us to his rise to power, to the moments when he was in the spotlight, and then to his travails and his swift elimination from the geopolitical developments in Libya in a procession that plunged the country into a turmoil that it is yet to recover from. With insight, lucidity, impartiality, breadth, and diligence, Janvier T, Chando manages to delineate the intricate threads that weaved the controversial character of Muammar Gaddafi. He not only finds the truth from the disparate accounts about the Libyan strongman, he shed light on him in a unique manner...

Ningún continente ha experimentado la mitad de asesinatos políticos, golpes de estado, guerras internas y externas, disturbios civiles y trastornos económicos desde la segunda mitad del siglo XX que África. Sin embargo, casi ningún experto serio diría que las manos de las fuerzas extranjeras que están dispuestas a asegurar sus "supuestos intereses" en el continente o que quieren ganar nuevos intereses, no estaban en la mayoría de estos reveses. Que estas fuerzas externas hayan tenido éxito con la ayuda de los africanos con la disposición malvada o los africanos que ignoran su plan...

In this insightful account of those who the Special Counsel Investigation under Robert Mueller subjected to an official inquiry over Russian interference in the 2016 US. Presidential election, and over alleged collusion between officials of Russia and members of the campaign team of Donald Trump, we are presented with developments involving the USA that polarized the country’s different socio-economic and political factions in the and plunged it into a political maze that it is yet to recover from. In an unequivocal manner, Janvier T. Chando presents a coherent account of the genesis, ...

Esta primera parte del relato de los poderes hegemónicos que dieron forma al mundo occidental es una historia milenaria que involucra a la antigua Roma y la naturaleza de su mundo, que involucra los imperios contra los que luchó, las tierras y las personas que conquistó, las invasiones "bárbaras" que derrotado y no pudo detener, y la influencia que ejerció en Europa, África y el Medio Oriente, convirtiéndolo en el objetivo de poderosos no romanos decididos a controlarlo mientras aprecian su civilización, los atributos positivos que constituyen el núcleo del mundo occidental hoy ...

En este breve relato, el autor revela los hilos que tejen el controvertido legado del líder militar egipcio y jefe de estado Anwar Al-Sadat, al proporcionar una idea de sus motivaciones que lo llevaron a la guerra contra Israel y que lo vieron poco después convertirse en un líder icónico para la paz en el Medio Oriente al impulsar a su país en un camino que comenzó la transformación de Egipto en un estado moderno, y que igualmente alejó a Egipto del resto del mundo árabe. La naturaleza inequívoca de la cuenta de Janvier T. Chando arroja una luz única sobre el legado de uno de los...

En este valiente y escalofriante relato del espacio postsoviético, el autor nos proporciona una visión fascinante de Rusia, Ucrania, Bielorrusia y las otras repúblicas de la Unión Soviética a través del personaje más grande que la vida de Boris Petrenkov que nos lleva de la mano a su mundo, su mente y los personajes con los que interactúa. Este viaje suave y fascinante a una parte del mundo que la gente encuentra misteriosa viene con revelaciones explosivas que nos llevan a través de la historia desde los tiempos de la Rus de Kiev hace un milenio, hasta la Horda de Oro de los ...

Esta sucinta narración nos lleva sin esfuerzo a través de un milenio y medio de la historia formativa de la tierra que está en el centro de la geopolítica actual. Como la primera parte de un impresionante relato que nos lleva de la mano a través de la historia fundamental de la tierra descrita como "La Tierra Santa", "La Tierra Prometida", Israel y Palestina, esta narración proporciona una visión única de los planes, intentados y aún no articulados, para resolver el conflicto entre dos pueblos o naciones con profundas conexiones con la tierra, pero que no viven allí en paz porque ...

When it comes to Cameroon, there seems to be an international conspiracy of silence regarding the destiny of this land variously described as "Africa in Miniature" or "The Microcosm of Africa". It is as if it truly embodies the haunted existence of Africa. When talking about dictators, the media giants apparently fail to mention the world's longest-serving non-royal head of state---Paul Biya of Cameroon, as if there is something to hide or as if there is something shameful about the Biya story and the anachronistic system that France and its geopolitical allies imposed on Cameroon by using ...