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Lo encuentro despreciable.”—Henry Kissinger
“Su propia impunidad solitaria es rango; huele a cielo. Si se permite que persista, reivindicaremos vergonzosamente al antiguo filósofo Anacharsis, quien sostenía que las leyes eran como telarañas; suficientemente fuerte para detener sólo a los débiles, y demasiado débil para retener a los fuertes. En nombre de innumerables víctimas conocidas y desconocidas, es hora de que la justicia tome cartas en el asunto".
Con la detención de Augusto Pinochet, y la intensa presión internacional por la detención de Slobodan Milosevic, la posibilidad de que el derecho internacional actúe contra los tiranos del mundo se perfila como una realidad. Sin embargo, como demuestra Christopher Hitchens en este libro compacto e incendiario, Occidente no necesita buscar muy lejos para encontrar candidatos adecuados para el banquillo. Estados Unidos es el hogar de un individuo cuyo historial de crímenes de guerra es comparable con los peores dictadores de la historia reciente. Póngase de pie, exsecretario de Estado y asesor de seguridad nacional, Henry A. Kissinger.
Sopesando la evidencia con cuidado judicial y desarrollando su caso con un análisis escrupuloso del registro escrito, Hitchens toma la palabra como abogado de la acusación. Él investiga, a su vez, la participación de Kissinger en la guerra de Indochina, los asesinatos en masa en Bangladesh, los asesinatos planeados en Santiago, Nicosia y Washington, D.C., y el genocidio en Timor Oriental. Basándose en testimonios de primera mano, documentación inédita y amplios barridos a través del material publicado bajo la Ley de Libertad de Información, monta una acusación devastadora de un hombre cuya ambición y crueldad han resultado directamente tanto en asesinatos individuales como en matanzas generalizadas e indiscriminadas.

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Christopher Hitchens

He is a British-American author, columnist, essayist, orator, literary and religious critic, social critic and journalist. Hitchens was the author, co-author, editor or co-editor of more than 30 books, including five collections of political, cultural, and literary essays. His polemical rhetoric made him a central topic of public discourse, resulting in him as an intellectual and controversial figure. Contributed to New Statesman, The Nation, The Weekly Standard, The Atlantic, London Review of Books, The Times Literary Supplement, Slate, Free Inquiry, and Vanity Fair. Describing himself as a democratic socialist, Marxist and anti-totalitarian, he broke with the political left after describing it as the "lukewarm reaction" of the Western left to the debate over The Satanic Verses, followed by the left's embrace of Bill Clinton and the anti-NATO war movement in Bosnia and Herzegovina in the 1990s.

The last century. His support for the war on Iraq further separated him. His writings included criticism of public figures such as Bill Clinton, Henry Kissinger, Mother Teresa and Diana, Princess of Wales. He was the older brother of conservative journalist and author Peter Hitchens. He also called for the separation of church and state. As a critic of divinity, he regards notions of a deity or a higher power as universalistic beliefs that restrict individual freedom. He advocated freedom of expression and scientific discovery, and that it trumps religion as a moral code of conduct for human civilization. His famous statement, "What can be affirmed without evidence can be denied without evidence" became known as the Hitchens Code.

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