Industry uplifts countries and people whereas religion suppresses them. This is the mantra of the Catholic Church, stealing the lives of people in exchange for the promise of heaven while keeping them poor and suffering. Eduardo Galeano will attempt to take Old World reality of the Americas exploration and exploitation to the current economic conditions of the past few decades, something that clearly makes false conclusions that appeal to the illiterate in the emotion of being a victim and seeking retribution. First off, economic reality of resources do not come without education, planning, hard work, and advancement of the host country, spanning the needs for infrastructure and training of the workers. If she truly believes in the values presented by Galeano then why does she stay in my country? With this said, lets start reading the book and keeping the author accountable to his gross miss-interpretations and blatant miss-understanding of reality.Ĭhapter one is called “Mankind’s poverty as a consequence of the wealth of the land” reads as the greatly miss-quoted Peruvian catchall phrase of their countrymen being “Peasants sitting on a throne of gold”. Her gushing praise for this book should be moment of her own self examination and contemplation in living those values.
The forward written by Isabel Allende also strongly endorses this book, which is a war statement by Galeano against the western culture and very existence of the United States of America, the very place that Allende lives in today and enjoys the sacrificed blood of my compatriots for the Freedom she can exploit. With Hugo Chavez, the very dead once brutal and moronic dictator of Venezuela who caused of so much suffering, giving his endorsement saying, “This book is a monument in our Latin America history” one also automatically knows that the radical agenda in this read will be completely ill-suited for the advancement of civilization and human beings in general.
“Open Veins of Latin America, Five centuries of the pillage of a continent”- just from the title one can determine a socialist, activist, anti-everything mentality.
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