Open Veins of Latin America
by Eduardo Galeano (also rec’d by Howard Zinn )
Buy on AmazonGaleano, who died in 2015, was a Uruguayan journalist and novelist. In his incendiary, poetic, and uncomfortable history of the Americas, published in 1971, he compiled a series of historical vignettes that weave together colonialism’s omnipresent themes: genocide, extraction, and exploitation.
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"Galeano, who died in 2015, was a Uruguayan journalist and novelist. In his incendiary, poetic, and uncomfortable history of the Americas, published in 1971, he compiled a series of historical vignettes that weave together colonialism’s omnipresent themes: genocide, extraction, and exploitation."
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