Las venas abiertas de América Latina

Eduardo Galeano

Jan 2004 · Siglo XXI

About this ebook

As controversial as when it was first published over 30 years ago, a study by an award-winning Uruguayan-born journalist, historian, and political activist details the historical exploitation of Latin America by the original conquistadores, and laments ongoing and deliberate actions of the U.S. and European corporations to purposely wreck, penalize, and destroy Third World economies and societies.

Ratings and reviews

Las Venas, if seen as a history book from the times of the colony to 1970, it is a most wonderful book, and a must-read reference. As a leftist book, it is the seed of the Pink Tide. It is, in no means, a bad book to read. But as the author called out recently, its economic reasoning is flawed, and more than once the book descends into ideological diatribes instead of factual analysis. Do read, but with a cautious eye.

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About the author

Eduardo Galeano was born on September 3, 1940 in Montevideo, Uruguay. At the age of 13, he began publishing cartoons for the Uruguayan socialist newspaper El Sol. He worked as a journalist, historian, and political activist. While in his early 30s, he was imprisoned during a right-wing military coup and later forced to flee from Uruguay to Argentina. Later, another coup and several death threats forced him to leave Argentina for Spain where he lived in exile until he was permitted to return to Uruguay in 1984. During his lifetime, he wrote numerous fiction and non-fiction works including Days and Nights of Love and War, Football in Sun and Shadow, Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent, Guatemala: Occupied Country, The Book of Embraces, and Children of the Days. In 1989, he won the American Book Award for Memory of Fire. He died of cancer on April 13, 2015 at the age of 74.