Open Veins of Latin America

Posted on 18 December 2018 by Eduardo Galeano

Since its U.S debut a quarter century ago, this brilliant text has set a new standard for historical scholarship of Latin America It is also an outstanding political economy, a social and cultural narrative of the highest quality, and perhaps the finest description of primitive capital accumulation since Marx.Rather than chronology, geography, or political successions, Eduardo Galeano has organized the various facets of Latin American history according to the patterns of five centuries of exploitation Thus he is concerned with gold and silver, cacao and cotton, rubber and coffee, fruit, hides and wool, petroleum, iron, nickel, manganese, copper, aluminum ore, nitrates, and tin These are the veins which he traces through the body of the entire continent, up to the Rio Grande and throughout the Caribbean, and all the way to their open ends where they empty into the coffers of wealth in the United States and Europe.Weaving fact and imagery into a rich tapestry, Galeano fuses scientific analysis with the passions of a plundered and suffering people An immense gathering of materials is framed with a vigorous style that never falters in its command of themes All readers interested in great historical, economic, political, and social writing will find a singular analytical achievement, and an overwhelming narrative that makes history speak, unforgettably.This classic is now further honored by Isabel Allende s inspiring introduction Universally recognized as one of the most important writers of our time, Allende once again contributes her talents to literature, to political principles, and to enlightenment. Free Read [ Open Veins of Latin America ] Author [ Eduardo Galeano ] For Kindle ePUB or eBook – kino-fada.fr When Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez presented President Obama with a copy of Eduardo Galeano s Open Veins of Latin America during a summit meeting in 2009 the intellectually gouty noise machine of the bourgeoisie began to flap its collective jowls, calling the gift an insult to America, and Obama s acceptance of it a sign of his acquiescence to communist influences The truths contained in the gift were essentially ignored by the right wind punditry, because truth and history have no place in When Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez presented President Obama with a copy of Eduardo Galeano s Open Veins of Latin America during a summit meeting in 2009 the intellectually gouty noise machine of the bourgeoisie began to flap its collective jowls, calling the gift an insult to America, and Obama s acceptance of it a sign of hi...Cuando era ni o le pregunt a mis padres por qu M xico era m s pobre que los Estados Unidos Me explicaron que el calor hac a a la gente m s perezosa y que en Europa y Estados Unidos, la gente es m s trabajadora, logrando un mejor nivel de vida despu s de varias generaciones.Mucho tiempo despu s, despu s de mucha indoctrinaci n, llegu a creer que lo que requer amos era un golpe de estado al estilo chileno, para avanzar como sociedad.Luego me percat que todas esas respuestas eran simplemente n Cuando era ni o le pregunt a mis padres por qu M xico era m s...I read this book out of curiosity and interest in Latin America I was advised that it was just rant or left wing rant, but decided to see for myself I came away with this as the main idea in Latin America, free enterprise is incompatible with civil liberties as Galeano says in his commentary on the book in an afterward The book catalogues the exploitation of the people usually the indigenous people by South American oligarchies and by their European and North American affiliates.It s ce I read this book out of curio....The best Latin American history book on earth The most heartening response came not from the book pages in the press but from real incidents in the streets The girl who was quietly reading Open Veins to her companion in a bus in Bogot , and finally stood up and read it aloud to all the passengers The woman who fled from Santiago in the days of the Chilean bloodbath with this book wrapped inside her baby s diapers The student who went fr...One of the best books ever written for a general audienceperiod This guy writes fiction likes it s non fiction and non fiction likes it s fiction He blends in and out better than anyone I know of What beauty, what poetry, what defiance, what anger, what celebration, what satire, what humour Sheer brilliance Oh, and he does his research too Recommended related readings Pedagogy of the Oppressed, Exterminate All the Brutes, Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology, The Wretched of the Eart ...1970, , 1971This is an agonizingly lucid account of the of colonisation and depredation of a continent Beginning with the continuing genocide of the native population, seguing into the advent of slavery and its replacement with hunger wages for the same back breaking or in the case of the mines, lung destroying work as the slaves were forced to carry out, and concluding with the neocolonial extraction of Latin American resources by the USA and Europe whatever Latin America makes, he argues, its main e This is an agonizingly lucid account of the of colonisation and depredation of a continent Beginning with the continuing genocide of the native population, seguing into the advent of slavery and its replacement with hunger wages for the same back breaking or in the case of the mines, lung destroying work as the slaves were forced to carry out, and concluding with the neocolonial extraction of Latin American resources by the USA and Europe whatever Latin America makes, he argues, its main export is cheap labour Corporate vampires and their helpers the US government, local dictators, the IMF and World Bank are thoroughly in...TODOS los latinoamericanos debemos leer este libro, deber a ser obligatorio leerlo como parte de la educaci n de las instituciones. Open Veins was a title in the Hugo Chavez Book Club the Venezuelan strongman surprised President Barrack Obama with a copy in 2009Open Veinswas written by a novelist in the vivid prose of a novel and the history takes many liberties, making itlike historic fiction On pg 283, author Galeano cited Chilean dictator Pinochet leaving 30,000 dead , which didn t ring true to my mem...

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18 December 2018

Eduardo Galeano