Weaving fact and imagery into a rich tapestry, Galeano fuses scientific analysis with the passions of a plundered and suffering people. It refers to the ways in which Latin America operates like a human body’s set of veins, which European colonialism split open.
(Introduction, ) The description of Latin America’s open veins inspires the book’s title. 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. Latin America is the region of open veins. 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. 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. 15.20 22.00 50th Anniversary edition Honored by an inspiring introduction by one of the most important writers of our time, Isabel Allende With its U.S. 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.
debut a quarter-century ago, this brilliant text has set a new standard for historical scholarship of Latin America.
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