At left is the cover with which I meet when I came across this volume of 336 pages of English journalist Santiago Camacho. We see the very famous St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican (which I was lucky enough to visit), with a purple sky behind it, where it hovers in a lighter shade a huge swastika. While a blanket cover these features can sensationalize some prejudices about the supposedly impartial intentions of the author, a reader must support the reactionary move from page to page, the image does not exaggerate, or better, well worth a mass. Camacho has a predilection with issues relating to secret societies and conspiracies, and realize other books of his authorship as 20 great conspiracies of history or Sewers Empire. In this installment, the writer makes a comprehensive review on the recent history of the Catholic Church and his left hand during the twentieth century transformation into a true multinational company, like any other group, can be dirty (and is) uncomfortable airing . The impoverishment of the Catholic Church during the nineteenth century became final with the gradual reduction of the territories belonging to the Papal States, and was sealed in 1870 when his dominions were reduced the current 0.44 km. squares Vatican City. The precarious economic situation remained unchanged until 1929, when Pius XI and Mussolini's Fascist government signed the Lateran Treaty, which meant exorbitant financial concessions on the part of Italy the sovereign State of Vatican, among other royalties courts. Thereafter, the Istituto per le Opere di Religione (IOR, or better known as the Vatican Bank) trusted papal coffers as dark characters Bernardino Novara, Michele Sindona, Roberto Calvi or Cardinal Marcinkus, whose movements of money from investment walked in Italian and international companies, to explicit link with the Sicilian Mafia and U.S., the CIA (and the financing of the fight against the Communist bloc), fascist regimes (the same Italy, Croatia, Germany), the extreme right, warlords Hispanic and trafficking of arms and heroin. Among the many shocking events, documents how the Vatican is facilitated Hitler's rise to power, kept silent about genocide, given asylum in their compounds and p dismissed his flight to help Nazi war criminals (with false passports and Red Cross help of the CIA), or as articulated a series of rinses and money laundering holes ending with individual prosecutors and the scandalous collapse of Banco Ambrosiano in 1982 (being the main shareholder IOR). There is talk of the rarefied circumstances surrounding the death of Pius XI and John Paul I, the assassination attempt on John Paul II and the actions of Propaganda Due . More intrigue and blood in the best Scorsese films.
Although the work is well documented, at times one misses a large number of references to literature sources from which it received at least one engaging in the text data. Unauthorized Biography Vatican (2005, Ed MartÃnez Roca) has the merit of data already known (unfortunately for the Holy See), but exposed in a chronic form of orderly, accessible, and indeed terrifying which plots the raw truth: the business of selling faith is governed by laws as Machiavellian as they were evident at the time of the Borgias.
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