Galeano also takes care to mention the many uprisings and resistance fighters and the violence they were met with, and also success stories like Cuba. I'm glad I read the book. Eduardo Galeano. This guy writes fiction likes it's non-fiction and non-fiction likes it's fiction. How opposite the reality is from what “Open Veins of Latin America” paints. You are a product, or better stated- a victim, of what he postulates in this b. I have to write this in English, in hope that everyone will pick up this book (which has been translated into many languages) and read it. The fact that Chavez offered to book to Obama greatly the likelihood that my students actually read it. This study guide refers to an updated version that … Galeano is a Uruguayan journalist/writer who has written a magesterial three-volume expansion on this book since it was published in 1970. Buy Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent Main by Eduardo Galeano, Isabel Allende, Cedric Belfrage (ISBN: 9781846687426) from Amazon's Book Store. Actually they had to as it was the subject matter of the mid term. I read an extract of this book and is so impactating for us as latinamericans to know nowadays the foreign industry that arrived our country keep doing the same things to bleed til death, so it is possible? Since its U.S. debut in the early 1970s, this brilliant text has set a new standard for historical scholarship of Latin America. وانا اتمنى قراءته خصوصا وانا أعلم عبقرية الكاتب ادواردو جاليانو. In fact, you live in, say, Iceland? Heartbreaking. The Open Veins of Latin America. The book was researched and written in the 1960s. Free trade comes only once restricted trade has allowed a country (the US, UK) to develop its own industries sufficiently to benefit from free trade. In the chapter “Lust for Gold, Lust for Silver,” Galeano highlights the purely extractive nature of this colonization. In reading, I learned several things that I did not know. I have minimal background in Latin American history and know close to nothing about political economy and so this was very difficult for me to read and absorb anything. Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read. Three weeks wasn't enough time to let it all sink 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 his acquiescence to communist influences. Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent. I hope to learn more about these forgotten people of Latin America. This really whet my appetite to learn more about Latin American history. I still think this is one of the best introductions to what in the `old days' we used to generally called U.S. Open Veins of Latin America. The book is simultaneously polemic, history, social science, and poetry (on that last point, I do wish I could read Spanish, because my feeling from reading this is that it must be stunning in Spanish). 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. In The Open Veins of Latin America, Eduardo Galeano details the centuries of extraction that that co l onizing European powers exercised over the land and the peoples of Latin America. The book catalogues the exploitation of “the people” —usually the indigenous people—by South American oligarchies and by their European and North American affiliates.