Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent

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Summary: Great
Review: Get it. Read it. Understand it. Facts are Facts.
Its a good one.

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Summary: open veins of Latin america
Review: Great response, good condition and better than average service thank you

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Summary: open veins of Latin america
Review: Great response, good condition and better than average service thank you

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Summary: This is the best Latin American history book ever written
Review: History is never out of fashion, history is never forgettable, history is never isolated in the past from what occurs and shall continue to occur in the future. Eduardo Galeano makes history come alive and in so doing makes the reader face his or her own reality: shall this injustice continue with impunity? Can we sit idly by and watch? Can we pretend we are innocent because we were ignorant? The "plunder" of the continent may have changed faces, but it has not stopped... Thank you, Don Eduardo Galeano, for your genius.

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Summary: The best book that I have read
Review: I find that not single sample great part of the reality with a great logic sense, of the facts and their consequences in the Latin america, but rather also emblem as the human race could be to be able to live in harmony. The concept of the generosity and of the solidarity it is the big teachings that he leaves, showing the selfishness and the human being arrogance. He has given me a great personal development and it has been able to change my point of view on the sense of the life. My congratulations to the countryman Eduardo Galeano.

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Summary: Compelling, must read for us latinos
Review: I really recommend this book; it opened my eyes to many aspects of Latin American History. Sure, it's not very pretty, but reality usually isn't. I think it's essential for every latino who wants to try to understand our past, present & future to read this book. I read it first in Spanish, just recently a bit of it in English; it reaffirmed my belief that it is best to read authors in their native language (when you can), or as the case may be, in the language the text was originally written. Mr. Belfrage did a good job, but some insights and terms were lost in his translation. Also, I read other customer reviews and it's interesting to note that the only two "bad" comments came from the united states, a place with a very warped view of Latin America.

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Summary: What a distorted view of the real reasons
Review: I recommend people read "Manual del Perfecto Idiota Latinoamericano" before reading Galeano's point of view. Blaming the Americans for the ineptitude and corruption of local governments in L.A. is ludicrous.

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Summary: Masterpiece exposes long overdue truth
Review: If you are at all interested in learning the why and how of how our Latin American world has been abused and pillaged ever since Cristobal Colon set foot on San Salvador Island.....READ THIS BOOK! Mr. Galeano shows us in perfect detail the complete and utter devastation to which our people have been subjected for the past 500 years. It details not only the loss of natural resources, but also of human life at the hand of many (starting with Spain and and all the way up to the United States). It is incredible that some individuals attempt to state that this book is wrong in placing the blame on whom it places it. The book blames both, the the ones who have stolen over the past 500 years and the ones who have allowed it to happen. Those who question the quality of the book are obviously blinded by the rage of having been unsmaked. A true masterpiece of modern literary work.

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Summary: Everyone should read this book!
Review: If you have a hard time believing the sterile happy-end history that north American schools have been spoon feeding you, or think that the simple 'no pain no gain' syntheses provided by the mainstream American and European journalism to explain increasing world poverty seem to lack justification, or if you simply want to read a well-documented story of uncountable cases of terror, domination, corruption, and exploitation--each time occuring under similar well orchestrated external conditions--then this book is for you!

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Summary: most erroneous book on latin america history
Review: In this book Mr. Galeano thinks he knows the "real" history of Latin America but he is soooo wrong. He needs to wake up to reality and find out exactly how things happen in the world instead of trying to give a simplist and naive reason for every problem that occurs in Latin America.