Los Brujos De Chvez

Hugo Ch�vez termin� siendo prisionero de su afici�n por los conjuros y los rituales santeros. Los d�as de conspiraci�n intent� ganar las simpat�as de sus compa�eros golpistas con la ouija y promovi� la santer�a cubana desde el Palacio de Miraflores, un recinto donde se sigue practicando el espiritismo. La pol�tica y la superstici�n se entrelazan en Venezuela en un singular fen�meno pol�tico en el que la santer�a cubana ha servido para ejercer control sobre los dirigentes pol�ticos y militares. El periodista hispano-venezolano David Placer destapa la relaci�n del chavismo con las ciencias ocultas en una obra original y reveladora. Por primera vez, una investigaci�n period�stica desvela el car�cter supersticioso de Hugo Ch�vez, un presidente que se rode� de brujos y santeros. Tras un minucioso trabajo que incluye a m�s de 70 entrevistas a allegados, amigos, miembros del gobiernos y ex colaboradores, Placer saca a la luz cartas privadas y extractos del diario personal del ex presidente venezolano hasta ahora desconocidos. Se trata de una obra imprescindible para comprender el chavismo como fen�meno pol�tico y social.

Por primera vez, una investigacion periodistica desvela el caracter supersticioso de Hugo Chavez, un presidente que se rodeo de santeros y brujos y que acudio desesperadamente a los rituales como formula del poder. Los conjuros y los amuletos siempre acompanaron al caudillo. Confio los destinos de la conspiracion a la lectura de cartas, intento ganar simpatias de sus companeros golpistas con la ouija y promovio la santeria cubana desde el Palacio de Miraflores, un recinto donde se sigue practicando el espiritismo. La politica y la supersticion se han entrelazado en un movimiento que recurrio a babalawos para imponer, a traves de la religion y los ritos un control sobre dirigentes politicos, militares, partidos, instituciones del Estado y otros factores de gobierno. El periodista hispano-venezolano David Placer destapa la relacion del chavismo con las ciencias ocultas con una obra original y reveladora. Tras una minuciosa investigacion que incluye mas de sesenta entrevistas a allegados, amigos, miembros del alto gobierno y excolaboradores de Hugo Chavez, Placer saca a la luz cartas privadas y extractos del diario personal de Hugo Chavez hasta ahora desconocidos. Se trata de una obra imprescindible para comprender al chavismo como movimiento politico y a Hugo Chavez como un lider que busco apoyo hasta con las animas y los espiritus. Todo en funcion del poder."

In this book, contributors analyze the different religious ideas and worldviews present in Latin America, extending beyond Catholicism to encompass Judaism, Mormonism, Buddhism, Western esotericism, and more.

In these pages Bernardo Olivera helps us to discern and recognize how the devil can act in our life and what kind of influence he can have. What is the relationship between Satan and the spiritual combat implied in our own journey to union with God? This book brings together the advice of the principal spiritual masters who have treated the subject with the realism that comes from their own experience of the devil's worst temptations, such as the laziness, bitterness and indifference that comes from the vice of acedia. The call is not to fight Satan directly, but to persevere in the humility and patience of Christ.

I Found My Friends recreates the short and tempestuous times of Nirvana through the musicians and producers who played and interacted with the band. The guides for this trip didn't just watch the life of this legendary band—they lived it. Soulsby interviewed over 150 musicians from bands that played and toured with Nirvana, including well-known alternative and grunge bands like Dinosaur Jr., The Dead Kennedys, and Butthole Surfers, as well as scores of smaller, but no less fascinating bands. In this groundbreaking look at a legendary band, readers will see a more personal history of Nirvana than ever before, including Nirvana's consideration of nearly a dozen previously unmentioned candidates for drummer before settling on David Grohl, a recounting of Nirvana's famously disastrous South American shows from never-before-heard sources on Brazilian and Argentine sides, and the man who hosted the first ever Nirvana gig's recollections of jamming with the band at that inaugural event. I Found My Friends relives Nirvana's meteoric rise from the days before the legend to through their increasingly damaged superstardom. More than twenty years after Kurt Cobain's tragic death, Nick Soulsby removes the posthumous halo from the brow of Kurt Cobain and travels back through time to observe one of rock and roll‘s most critical bands as no one has ever seen them before.

The Things of Others: Ethnographies, Histories, and Other Artefacts deals with the things mainly, but not only, mobilized by anthropologists in order to produce knowledge about the African American, the Afro-Brazilian and the Afro-Cuban during the 1930s.

The first comprehensive study of the close ties between the American South and the Caribbean With essays and commentaries by Roger D. Abrahams, Kenneth Bilby, David Eltis, Stanley L. Engerman, Aline Helg, Milton Jamail, Charles Joyner, Daniel C. Littlefield, Bonham C. Richardson, and Ralph Lee Woodward, Jr. Download Plain Text version With the trade of sugar, rum, and African slaves in the islands that form a perimeter around the Gulf of Mexico, the broad expanse of water known as the Caribbean ringed what came to be known as the South. Today concise political boundaries separate the coasts of the American South from the multicultural worlds that dominate the islands. Yet all anecdotal evidence suggests far greater ties. One listens to the reggae in the streets of New Orleans or to the rumba in Atlanta. One notes the moans of the blues in the cafes of Veracruz and watches Major League games in which young Dominican athletes hurling lightning-fast balls become national heroes on their island homeland beset by political and economic woes. Do these human links suggest a greater regionalism than was previously acknowledged? This exciting study of two discrete yet kindred areas gives an affirmative answer. It comes to terms with what many have considered distinct yet fluctuating boundaries that separate and bond southern peoples. These papers from the Chancellor's Symposium at the University of Mississippi in 1998 focus on and examine the strong connections. Geographer Bonham C. Richardson analyzes the territory as a cultural region "with Little Rock at the northwest corner and French Guiana at the southeast that also includes the eastern rim of Central America as well as the Bahamas." Other contributors explore the creative cultures that emerged when a brutal European economy enslaved Africans for labor. The essays also examine the economic connections that have created such dissimilar and lasting legacies as the plantation system and the love of baseball. The South and the Caribbean flow into each other culturally, economically, and socially. These papers and their commentaries suggest that future study of these regions must deal with them together in order to understand each. The merging of the two through music, dance, language, sports, and political aspiration -- all discussed in this book -- serves to give birth to a New South and a New Caribbean. At the University of Mississippi, Douglass Sullivan-González is an associate professor of history and Charles Reagan Wilson is the director of the Center for the Study of Southern Culture.

Harkening back to the days of giant creature movies of the 1950s, a horde of giant Gila Monsters is on the loose in New Mexico, threatening every living creature in sight. Nothing and no one is safe from the ravenous creatures as they tear their way through the desert and into heavily populated areas. Can these atomically mutated creatures be stopped or is this the beginning of the end for mankind? It's up to Chato del-Klinne and Dr. Kate Dwyer to kick the hiss out of the oversized lizards! From the mind of Kathryn Ptacek, writing under her Les Simons pen name, comes a tale of grisly horror with man being the hunted and Mother Nature being the hunter.