Relatos de un Diplomático

"Discusses Latin America's current and potential role in the world economy. Analyzes feasibility of implementing various strategies to increase region's importance in world trade and the global order"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.

"Brilliant examination of the Italian bibliographer who lent his considerable talents to the Rosas regime in the mid 1800s. Though de Angelis might have had questionable politics, his contribution to Latin American scholarship was tremendous; he assembled and organized a vitally important collection of books, maps, documents, and pamphlets on the early history of the Plata still used today. Sabor's prize-winning study is part biography, part bibliographical essay, and wholly erudite. Recommended"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.

"Este libro se propone explicar por qué Argentina era considerada en el mundo la tierra de promisión para millones de inmigrantes, hasta fines de la década del treinta. A la vez, encarar el estudio de las causas silenciadas por las que se convirtió en país emigratorio con capitales en fuga. Los nietos de aquellos inmigrantes hoy tratan de recuperar la nacionalidad de sus abuelos, en busca de mejores horizontes. La pregunta que los ciudadanos comunes se formulan a diario del por qué del fracaso argentino tiene una respuesta muy breve: El abandono de la civilización de la moneda...

Portrays the search for a remedy to the despair caused by political repression and the struggle against a historical precedent that destroys free will in a story set in Argentina during Peron's first years.