This book analyzes ALBA's structure and dynamics, its practicality, its medium and long-term sustainability, and its capacity to influence regional and international affairs. The work examines ALBA's possible economic and security consequences for neighboring non-member states in the region, particularly the United States, as well as other key actors such as China, Russia, and Iran. The volume analyzes the origins, ideological orientation, structure, internal dynamics, and evolution of the ALBA initiative and its regional and international implications during its first decade of existence. It is the first comprehensive work on the subject with a multi-disciplinary perspective and it provides an analysis of the new regional, Bolivarian Alliance initiative in Latin America and its relation to the international system. The volume includes studies on the Bolivarian Alliance and Chavismo under Hugo Chavez Frias' leadership. As a whole, this volume weaves together such crucial issues as oil politics, drug-trafficking, hemispheric security, and trade.

A volume provides the insight into one of the most developed Mesoamerican civilization: the Nahuatl. An author analyzes its cosmology and vision about the world, importance to maintain stability in the world through the sacrifice of the warriors and prisoners of the flower wars and a profound concern of the Nahuatl people about maintaining the peace. In the Nahuatl philosophy, making wars to achieve the peace has its reference to the current world, e.g. military humanitarian interventions in a country in conflict to bring the peace and prevention from infecting other regions. The volume is a quest for the Nahuatl legacy in the contemporary vision about peace and war. The poems and oral stories transcribed into Latin alphabet by the Spanish missioners included in the book, are essential for analysis of the Nahuatl concepts like war, sacrifice, stability and their references to the current political affairs. The presence of Mesoamerican cosmology in the Mexican literature and culture is relevant for this study. The volume is a comprehensible analysis of the pre-Colombian wisdom influence on the formation of the current vision about the world."

El libro es un analisis de la novela La Fiesta del Chivo de Mario Vargas Llosa sobre la dictadura de Laonidas Trujillo en la Republica Dominicana donde el novelista por la primera vez describe con precision el complot y el magnicidio del dictador. Magdalena estudia la obra de Vargas Llosa desde su enfoque tanto historico como ficticio. La autora descubre que la obra de Vargas Llosa tiene una forma eliptica, dos helices que se cruzan en puntos determinados, lo que da una imagen de la ADN. La autora tambien compara la novela de Vargas Llosa con la cinco novelas anteriores sobre los dictadores latinoamericanos. La autora analiza la novela de Vargas Llosa desde el punto de vista polifonico basandose en la teoria bajtiniana. Los diferentes tiempos y espacios en la novela estan sometidos a su estudio.El mensaje politico de Marion Vargas Llosa esta presentado en este libro. Es por la primera vez cuando se hace un analisis tan profundo y detallado de la Fiesta del Chivo."