Eduardo Galeano, born on this day in 1940, was a Uruguayan journalist and author known for, among other texts, his work "Open Veins of Latin America", which the editors of Monthly Review Press called "perhaps the finest description of the primary accumulation of capital since Marx".
Galeano began his career as a political cartoonist and journalist - at fourteen, he was contributing political cartoons to the socialist newspaper "El Sol". At 20, he was the managing director of "Marcha", a storied weekly in Uruguay.
Some of his high profile work as a journalist includes an interview with Juan Perón, a laudatory profile of Che Guevara, and a portrait of Pu Yi, the last emperor of China, who had just completed his Maoist re-education in a nondescript building on the outskirts of Beijing.
Galeano is perhaps best known for his book "Open Veins of Latin America", which details how, through five centuries of plunder by European conquistadors and American corporations, the region's abundant natural resources had been extracted to enrich a few local elites and many foreign interests.
The editors of Monthly Review Press, which published the U.S. edition, described the book as "perhaps the finest description of the primary accumulation of capital since Marx." President Hugo Chávez gave a Spanish-language copy of Open Veins to President Barack Obama on his first diplomatic visit to the region.
"The human murder by poverty in Latin America is secret: every year, without making a sound, three Hiroshima bombs explode over communities that have become accustomed to suffering with clenched teeth."
- Eduardo Galeano
Open Veins of Latin America pdf :castro-stuff:
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Confession: anytime I leave a room, I think to myself "hehe Brexit" (Brooke exit)
tfw there are 2 pandemics going on at the same time and I still have to commute to campus to watch my professor read from a powerpoint
33 million Pakistanis displaced, jesus christ, but of course climate change is perfectly natural and nothing to worry about :sadness-abysmal:
The FBI has confirmed that they seized Barron Trump's computer during the Mar A Lago raid, noting that his steam profile listed his hours played of Crusader Kings 2 at over 7,000
I'm in my yummy dinner arc I'm such a chinesepilled noodlecel
Biden "Anyone who advocates violence is a threat to this country"
Also Biden: "I am threatening this country with 100k more cops and Crime Bill 2.0"
one comrade arrogantly told a police officer, who was in the process of arresting him, that he was a 'fool' because he had 'never read Marx' and did 'not even know what politics and economics [were]´
100 years of leftists being insufferable knowitalls :sicko-hexbear: (it was some russian cat before 1917 im not flipping to the citation to check)
:a-little-trolling: Mr. Softie, Mr. Sofite, @SorosFootSoldier 's cat! crowd cheering Oh how we love him folks! crowd screaming Oh yes we do! Oh yes we do! I met Mr. Sofite back in 2016, wonderful, terrific, very good meeting, possibly the best meeting I had in my presidency, which I still am, your president. crowd chanting Mr. Softie was very soft, and very proud, very proud too, the proudest cat. I looked at him and said "wow, look at you, soft and proud, we have a lot in common, you know". And he knew crowd going wild Oh he knew! Folks he knew! The smartest cat. He knew exactly what I was saying! We really do have the best cats on hexbear. Sleepy Joe, "Dark Brandon" he won't tell you this crowd booing Oh no he won't! He's too weak, too cowardly to admit it.
feelin a little :kitty-cri: tonight
been a long time since the big sad caught up to me
One of the benefits of dealing with this kinda stuff for twenty+ years is that I know it's gonna pass, and that helps weather it
But it's still here for now I guess
calling pasta "chinese food" as a bit has resulted in death threats on my life by online italians, this is the real cancel culture