The Nameless War

This book is about an unnameable war, or The Nameless War, as its authorRubén Darío Bustillos Rávago has titled it. His enormous historiographic research efforts focus on the analysis of the armed conflict that occurred in Venezuela during the 1960s and 1970s, its precedents and aftermath, and the role played by Cuba and the former Soviet Union.Many books have been written about nameless wars, from historical events that occurred in various periods of mankind, to novels with this...
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This book is about an unnameable war, or The Nameless War, as its authorRubén Darío Bustillos Rávago has titled it. His enormous historiographic research efforts focus on the analysis of the armed conflict that occurred in Venezuela during the 1960s and 1970s, its precedents and aftermath, and the role played by Cuba and the former Soviet Union.Many books have been written about nameless wars, from historical events that occurred in various periods of mankind, to novels with this title, whose last representation is captured within the genre of heroic fantasy in the thirdpart of the saga of novels Eraide by Spanish writer Javier Bolado, published in 2016. Within what has been regarded as unnamed wars we can cite many, the long‒standing armed conflict in Colombia, the wars on drugs and crimein Mexico that has spawned waves of homicides as a consequence of the corruption, intransigence, and inaction of Mexican governments; to name a few. These wars of a faceless foe have unleashed an uncontrollable violencethat has forced to militarize the war against drug cartels.The city of Caracas has a nameless war, the capital of Venezuela has become one of the most violent cities in Latin America. The city's poorest slums are home to millions of weapons, criminal gangs, violence, and hundreds of shattered families. The enemy is faceless.The terrorist attacks of radical Islamism against Western democracies have brought the debate about this form of war to the forefront, if it is really considered a war, in the correct sense of the word, in terms of how it should be fought, when there are two or more factions. In fact, the world is no longer the same after the attacks on the Twin Towers on September 11, 2001, inNew York City. In the wake of these terrorist attacks, until the most recent ones in Paris and London in 2019, the international community, that of the Western allies, has found their vulnerability to this form of war.Other comments ...It is of hemispheric importance, because herein the author references concrete activities of the multiple interventions carried out by Castro's communism in the Americas.Brigadier General (Army) Teodoro Díaz Zavala....valuable work, which should be a required reading for all of us who care for a free, sovereign, and democratic Venezuela.Brigadier General (Army) Juan Antonio Herrera Betancourt.......a historical compendium that I recommend its reading from beginning to end so that older generations may remember these events, current generations may know them, and future generations may ... open their eyes ...Brigadier General (National Guard) Miguel A. Aparicio."...a warning to all Latin Americans about the danger that looms over the peoples of the region, of falling into the hands of narco‒terrorism that has caused so much damage in our once beautiful country: Venezuela."Colonel (Air Force) Oswaldo Martínez.even though revolutionaries are apparentlynormal beings, they actually are, in reality, verydangerous mentally ill that could induce the peoplesto uprisings qualified as 'collective offenses.' "Salvador Allende G.**In his graduate thesis "Mental hygiene and delinquency" in orderto obtain the title of Medical Doctor at the University of Chile.(1933).