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Open Veins of Latin America (1971) (edit title/settings)

Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent

by Eduardo Galeano (Author) (edit contributors)

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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... read more

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  • “The Caribbean islandpopulations finally stopped paying tribute because they had disappeared: theywere totally exterminated in the gold mines, in the deadly task of siftingauriferous sands with their bodies half submerged in water, or in breaking upthe ground beyond the point of exhaustion, doubled up over the heavycultivating tools brought from Spain. Many natives of Haiti anticipated the fateimposed by their white oppressors: they killed their children and committedmass suicide.”
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  • “it’s worthwhile to die for things without which it’s not worthwhile to live.”
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  • The more freedom is extended to business, the more prisons have to be built for those who suffer from that business.
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  • The metals taken from the new colonial dominions not only stimulated Europe’s economic development; one may say that they made it possible.
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  • Our defeat was always implicit in the victory of others; our wealth has always generated our poverty by nourishing the prosperity of others—the empires and their native overseers. In the colonial and neocolonial alchemy, gold changes into scrap metal and food into poison.
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  • The strength of the imperialist system as a whole rests on the necessary inequality of its parts, and this inequality assumes ever more dramatic dimensions.
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  • “We live in a world that treats the dead better than the living. We, the living are askers of questions and givers of answers, and we have other grave defects unpardonable by a system that believes death, like money, improves people.”
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  • The more a product is desired by the world market, the greater the misery it brings to the Latin American peoples whose sacrifice creates it.
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  • For the world today, America is just the United States; the region we inhabit is a sub-America, a second-class America of nebulous identity.
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  • Most Latin American countries have no real surplus of people; on the contrary, they have too few. Brazil has thirty-eight times fewer inhabitants per square mile than Belgium, Paraguay has forty-nine times fewer than England, Peru has thirty-two times fewer than Japan. Haiti and El Salvador, the human antheaps of Latin America, have lower population densities than Italy.
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  • Tourists love to photograph altiplano natives in their native costumes, unaware that these were imposed by Charles III at the end of the eighteenth century. The dresses that the Spaniards made Indian females wear were copied from the regional costumes of Estremaduran, Andalusian, and Basque peasant women, and the center-part hair style was imposed by Viceroy Toledo.
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The division of labor among nations is that some specialize in winning and others in losing.

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FOREWORD BY ISABEL ALLENDE ..........................................................IX
FROM IN DEFENSE OF THE WORD ........................................................XIV
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT… … ..........................................................................X

INTRODUCTION: 120 MILLION CHILDREN IN
THE EYE OF THE HURRICANE .....................................................… ...........1

PART I: MANKIND'S POVERTY AS A CONSEQUENCE OF THE WEALTH OF THE LAND
1. LUST FOR GOLD, LUST FOR SILVER … … … … … … … … … … … … … 2
2. KING SUGAR AND OTHER AGRICULTURAL MONARCHS … … … ..59
3. THE INVISIBLE SOURCES OF POWER … … … … … … ..… .… … … … .134

PART II: DEVELOPMENT IS A VOYAGE WITH MORE SHIPWRECKS THAN NAVIGATORS
4. TALES OF PREMATURE DEATH … … … … … … … … … … … .… … … .173
5. THE CONTEMPORARY STRUCTURE OF PLUNDER… … ...… … … ..205

PART III: SEVEN YEARS AFTER ...........................… … … … ...................263

REFERENCES … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … ...… … … … … … … 287

INDEX… … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … .307

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  1. Eduardo Galeano (Author)

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  1. Cedric Belfrage (Translator)

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Original Language: Spanish
Publisher: Add the publisher.
Country: Uruguay
Publication Date: 1971
ISBN: 950-895-094-3
Page Count: 379

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