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Summary: A must read book, for anyone searching for truth !!!
Review: "Open Veins", spares noone and can be found insulting to anyone who lives in a society that is working perfectly for them. Someone who sees this world as a perfect place and has read all the history books circulating in the school system would have a hard time grasping Galeano's ideas. But someone searching for truth even if it hurts will benefit imensly from reading this book. All ideas are backed by statistical facts organized so neatly that what would usually be boring material, comes alive to the reader. Even if one doesn't agree on everything and there is a wealth of information in this book, one walks away with a whole new perspective on how things are and came to be not just in Latin America, but in the whole world. Someone famous once said fact is a set of ideas agreed upon. I think Galeano's ideas can be validated just as much as anyone elses who disagees with him. He uses his statistics very well to validate them. Read it even if only you want a different perspective on history. If you are one of the "losers" it leaves you with renewed hope and if you are one of the "winners" you may apreciate more how fortunate you are. Because as Galeano clearly points out power is constantly changing hands and will continue to do so throughout history.
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Summary: A must read book, for anyone searching for truth !!!
Review: "Open Veins", spares noone and can be found insulting to anyone who lives in a society that is working perfectly for them. Someone who sees this world as a perfect place and has read all the history books circulating in the school system would have a hard time grasping Galeano's ideas. But someone searching for truth even if it hurts will benefit imensly from reading this book. All ideas are backed by statistical facts organized so neatly that what would usually be boring material, comes alive to the reader. Even if one doesn't agree on everything and there is a wealth of information in this book, one walks away with a whole new perspective on how things are and came to be not just in Latin America, but in the whole world. Someone famous once said fact is a set of ideas agreed upon. I think Galeano's ideas can be validated just as much as anyone elses who disagees with him. He uses his statistics very well to validate them. Read it even if only you want a different perspective on history. If you are one of the "losers" it leaves you with renewed hope and if you are one of the "winners" you may apreciate more how fortunate you are. Because as Galeano clearly points out power is constantly changing hands and will continue to do so throughout history.
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Summary: Open Veins of A.L
Review: ....Then came "Open veins of A.L",just put it like that' no matter what your political preferences are(right,center left,etc.)you must read this book to help you understand the reality of our continent and the necessity to give the descendants of the American indians a real tribute and a sincere apology for the devastation of their land and customs. "Open veins of A.L" is not a book to be read and dispose right away,is a document to be preserved and pass from this generation to future one's. .... Hopefully a new mentality will emerge among the young Latinamericans that might help to close the open wounds from our ancestors.Thank you Mr.Galeano for sharing with us such an interesting book. ....
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Summary: Self Deluding "Facts": Grow Up. You Did It To Yourself
Review: An excellent example of why Hispanic countries are incapable of providing their people with either freedom, democracy, stability or economic security: too many pseudo-intellectuals armed with "evidence" that shows the fault is (tell me you can't predict who the villain is): the United States!I read the book twice and still am reminded of this old drunk in New York city, who kept muttering in Spanish, "Bastards! It's all their fault. Anglo bastards!" I am always reminded of this when I visit Buenos Aires and listen to the cliched complaints against the US for Argentina's economy, or last week, in Lima, when a distinguished professor solemnly informed me, "The U.S. is responsible for 99% of South America's problems." The statistics and examples are clearly manipulated, neo-Marxist interpretations of "events." This book is for leftists and "blame America first" people. Grow up. Work hard.
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Summary: Facts are facts, but we cant blame others for out mistakes.
Review: As a REAL LATINAMERICAN that was born and has lived in Latinamerica most of his life i have to say i disagree with this book. Yes facts are facts and the USA has intervened in latin america far too many times, but we cant blame them for our problems. Look at Cuba, after the early 1960's the USA has not intervened with Cuba and Fidel has been free to run "his" country, and look at what he has done, even after he received billions in money from the former USSR. Yet, who do we blame for Cuba being such a poor country?
I recommend reading "Fabricantes de Miseria" its a great and not one sided book about how everyone from wealthy bussiness families to unions and militaries have ruined latinamerica. Although i think that book is only in spanish.
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Summary: mmm.. como tanta gente puede ser engañada?
Review: Concuerdo con que la gente lea tambien "El manual del Perfecto Idiota Latinoamericano". El libro de Galeano esta muy bien escrito, con muchas referencias, pero es anacrónico. Es como que los hispanoamericanos culpemos a los espanoles por nuestras desgracias. Si alguna vez fuimos victimas fue hace muchos anos (lo cual tampoco acepto). Lo que se necesita es trabajar duro y robar menos.
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Summary: A must for your Latin American Collection
Review: Eduardo Galeano writes with eloquence of Latin America's 500 years of occupation. His prose is so beautiful, even while writing of rape, pillage, abuse of power and other atrocities. I haven't been able to put this book down in years. I read it, then picked it up and read it again. It has lived in my favored bookshelf for many years and is worn from page turning.
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Summary: A classic masterpiece
Review: Eduardo Galeano's classic work serves as a testament to the world. His words resonate with all of us who have seen and felt the pillaging of Latin America first hand. The book writen in "90 nights," when Galeano was 31 years old meticulously illustrates how Europe and North America have raped, and exploited Latin America in their continued crusade for wealth. Galeano displays how the genocide of the Indigenous Americans and the enslavement of Africans created 'the foundation stone upon which the giant industrial capital of modern times was built'. Read this book and tell me that isn't true.
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Summary: A classic masterpiece
Review: Eduardo Galeano's classic work serves as a testament to the world. His words resonate with all of us who have seen and felt the pillaging of Latin America first hand. The book writen in "90 nights," when Galeano was 31 years old meticulously illustrates how Europe and North America have raped, and exploited Latin America in their continued crusade for wealth. Galeano displays how the genocide of the Indigenous Americans and the enslavement of Africans created 'the foundation stone upon which the giant industrial capital of modern times was built'. Read this book and tell me that isn't true.
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Summary: Great way of understanding the today's word by knowing past
Review: Galeano definitly knows to show us the dramitacal consecuences from the Conquer of America by the European nations, and how the impositions of the culture, religion and economic models had their origins here explained. A call for us to know the past in order to look for a better future for America Latina. The way this investigation is narrated to us is incredible and very enjoyable.
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