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

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Summary: The other side of the history
Review: We could easily say that this is a book again capitalism. It is. Or that the author shows a biased opinion. He does.

However, this is the other side of the history and the news: The data you won't get on "official" places (reports from the IMF, big news agencies or the like). Here you have the data about poverty, misery, betray, murder, famine,...

We could agree or not. The book is biased because the author decided to show the data in plain language: The book is well documented, but the information is not shown in simply numbers or graphs; instead, the author discusses the situations in the background of the numbers.

The book has been prohibited in some countries, but it is on its 73rd edition in Spanish (2001). The first edition is from 1970 and the revised one from 1978. Nothing has change, only new data has been added.

Do you want to know (a lot) more about Latin America society and international tradings? The book is for you.