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Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent
Eduardo Galeano
4.29 AVERAGE
462 reviews for:
Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent
Eduardo Galeano
4.29 AVERAGE
informative
challenging
dark
informative
reflective
sad
medium-paced
dark
informative
sad
medium-paced
dark
informative
reflective
sad
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"Se abren tiempos de rebelión y de cambio. Hay quienes creen que el destino descansa en las rodillas de los dioses, pero la verdad es que trabaja, como un desafío candente, sobre las conciencias de los hombres". - Galeano.
Verdades a golpes, verdades necesarias, verdades que normalmente ignoramos sobre la historia de nuestros países, que como dice la canción "un pueblo sin piernas pero que camina"; pueblos resilientes que siguen adelante aunque parecieran no tener razones para hacerlo.
Verdades a golpes, verdades necesarias, verdades que normalmente ignoramos sobre la historia de nuestros países, que como dice la canción "un pueblo sin piernas pero que camina"; pueblos resilientes que siguen adelante aunque parecieran no tener razones para hacerlo.
A really fantastic primer to Latin American colonial culture, history, and politics. Great starting place if this is a topoc you're interested in.
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challenging
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Really great and thorough account of 400 years of history. Each paragraph has like 17 different facts about things that happened all over the continent at different times, but that all contribute to one specific point. A few dozen of those paragraphs will make different points about a broader topic or trend, and a few of those sections make up a chapter with a title like "Mankind's Poverty as a Consequence of the Wealth of the Land."
This is very impressive - I don't know how the author was able to ingest and process all this information into all these separate threads - but it makes the book exhausting to read. I couldn't get through more than a few pages at a time, and I forgot a lot of names and dates as soon as I closed the book. It's dense in a way that is hard to skim or summarize on the fly. And it is very depressing.
highly recommend for people with long attention spans, but worth the effort for everyone else too imo.
This is very impressive - I don't know how the author was able to ingest and process all this information into all these separate threads - but it makes the book exhausting to read. I couldn't get through more than a few pages at a time, and I forgot a lot of names and dates as soon as I closed the book. It's dense in a way that is hard to skim or summarize on the fly. And it is very depressing.
highly recommend for people with long attention spans, but worth the effort for everyone else too imo.
I read quite a few books that smacked me in the face with hard facts and Eduardo Galeano’s masterpiece is no different. Galeano broke his book up in such a way that the abuse of natural resources and native people walked hand in hand. This novel is well researched but was released when the USSR was still a world power so don’t expect more up to date information. Even if it ends roughly 50 years ago the facts are still relevant and the book is a worthy read. I certainly plan on picking it up again.