Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent
Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent By Eduardo Galeano
Barack Obama - Hugo Chaves
Book Review :
This is a must for people who like to know the truth of what happened in Latin America over the centuries of European influence… and the truth isn’t pretty. Eduardo Galeano doesn’t blame the American people for all of Latin American problems and incredible corruption at government and management levels, he points out at the American governments and their foreign policy; the fact remains we, Latin Americans, have been invaded by American marines more than 200 times, and every single time it hasn’t been to defend the people and democracy but to support right wing corrupted officials and capitalists. Take Chile for example, it was American dollars and American advisors which help orchestrating the criminal and totally anti-democratic coupe d’etat of 1973…
Eduardo Galeano is an excellent writer, and he has dedicated most of his life to put his writing at our service, so that we understand how we ended up in such mess and poverty having one of the richest continent on Earth.
Is not possible to have an complete opinion of the socioeconomic evolution of Latinamerica, and the reasons of the scattered poverty in this rich continent without a comprehensive lecture of this splendid book.
Until Chavez and Obama, nobody sad anything about Galeano and his book. And is not only US-people is also about European countries that they have done a lot of damage in South America: take a look at that Paraguay war!!!
And the book covers only up to ‘70. I wait for the book 70-00.