Santander

Este libro cuenta la historia de un mundo en transformación y de una sociedad, la peruana, que ansiaba una vida mejor. Aunque compartido, este anhelo tenía significados distintos para los diferentes secrores de la heterogénea sociedad colonial. De ahí que las luchas por la independencia peruana fueran al mismo tiempo una guerra civil y una guerra internacional, una guerra de poder y una guerra de ideas, que involucró a todos los estamentos en pos de sus propios intereses y sueños.

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Al terminar la guerra civil, España entera podía considerarse zona devastada. Para reconstruirla, Franco recurrió a una mano de obra totalmente gratuita: los presos políticos. Reducidos a la condición de esclavos por la patria, estos trabajadores forzados fueron quienes levantaron el Valle de los Caídos y pusieron los cimientos de la España del desarrollo. Isaías Lafuente documenta con precisión el mapa de la explotación, los intereses económicos que animaron desde sus inicios el sistema de redención de penas, y cuantifica, por primera vez, las ganancias que el régimen de Franco...