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Es 2003, la izquierda ha ganado en las elecciones autonómicas en Madrid y parece recuperar el poder después de ocho años destronada. Pero el día de la votación dos diputados del PSOE se abstienen y frustran la elección del candidato socialista. No todo el mundo recuerda el nombre de aquel candidato, pero el apellido de uno de los tránsfugas quedaría grabado a fuego en nuestra historia política. El tamayazo le dio la victoria al PP. En 2013, Guillermo Zapata escribió el guion para una película de ficción sobre todo aquello. Finalmente el proyecto no vio la luz, y hoy aquella investigación sirve de base a este ensayo. Con la perspectiva que dan veinte años de lo sucedido, una de la tesis de este libro es que a veces conviene desterrar del imaginario las grandes conspiraciones, los maletines y los planes perfectamente urdidos. A veces las cosas son exactamente lo que parecen

"Aryeh Malkish, a Ukrainian Jew, was an engineering student in Ryazan when the KGB arrested him in 1969 for organizing a group of political dissidents. He was sent to the gulag for seven years, where Ukrainians accounted for nearly half of Russia's millions of political prisoners. Originally published in 1978, his trenchant memoir vividly describes life in a Soviet labor camp, where disfiguring pathologies flourished in an atmosphere of unrelenting suspicion and cruelty and intrenched antisemitism."--

This paper will compare the application of the right to human dignity as contained in the South African Bill of Rights with the application of the corresponding right from the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union and the German Basic Law.

Over the course of Guatemala's thirty-year armed conflict -the longest ever in Central America-over 200,000 people were killed. During Argentina's military dictatorship in the seventies, over 30,000 people were disappeared. Today, forensic anthropologists in each country are gathering evidence to prove atrocities and seek justice. But these teams do more than just study skeletons-they work to repair families and countries torn apart by violence. In Still Life with Bones, anthropologist Alexa Hagerty learns to see the dead body with a forensic eye. She examines bones for evidence of torture and fatal wounds-hands bound by rope, cuts from machetes-but also for signs of a life lived: to articulate how life shapes us down to the bone. A weaver is recognized from the tiny bones of the toes, moulded by years of kneeling before a loom; a girl is identified alongside her pet dog. In the tenderness of understanding these bones, Hagerty discovers how exhumation serves as a ritual in the naming and placement of the dead, and connects ancestors with future generations. She shows us how this work can bring meaning to families dealing with unimaginable loss, and how its symbolic force can also extend to entire societies in the aftermath of state terror and genocide. Encountering the dead has the power to transform us, making us consider each other, our lives, and the world differently. Weaving together powerful stories about investigative breakthroughs, grieving families, histories of violence, and her own forensic coming of age, Hagerty crafts a moving portrait of the living and the dead