Open Veins of Latin America
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| Author | Eduardo Galeano |
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| Country | Uruguay |
| Language | Spanish |
| Genre(s) | Essay |
| Publisher | Siglo XXI Editores (Original), Monthly Review Press (English translation) |
| Released | 1971 |
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Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent (in Spanish Las venas abiertas de América Latina) is an essay written by Uruguayan journalist Eduardo Galeano in 1971.
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[edit] Plot summary
In Open Veins of Latin America Galeano analyzes the history of Latin America as a whole from the time period of the European discovery of the New World to contemporary Latin America arguing against what he views as European and later U.S. economic exploitation and political dominance over the region.
[edit] Background
Open Veins of Latin America was written by Eduardo Galeano in Uruguay in 1971. During this period Galeano was working as a journalist, editing books, and was employed in the publishing department of the University of Montevideo. Galeano states that "it took four years of researching and collecting the information I needed, and some 90 nights to write the book". [1] Shortly after the publishing of Open Veins of Latin America, in 1973, a military junta took power in Uruguay forcing Galeano into exile. As a result of its left-wing perspective the book was banned during the military governments of Chile, Argentina and Uruguay.
[edit] Trivia
- In the foreword for the 1997 edition of the book, Chilean novelist and niece of former Chilean President Salvador Allende, Isabel Allende says that "after the military coup of 1973 I could not take much with me: some clothes, family pictures, a small bag of dirt from my garden, and two books: an old edition of the Odes by Pablo Neruda and the book with the yellow cover, Las Venas Abiertas de America Latina."
- The Argentine rock band Los Fabulosos Cadillacs in a 1995 album titled Rey Azucar released a song named "Las venas abiertas de América Latina" after Galeano's book. [2]
- The Argentine punk rock band Shaila in a 2006 album titled Camino a Idilia (The Path to Idilia) released a song named Sudamérica II - El fracaso regional citing a full paragraph of Galeano's work. [3]
[edit] References
- ^ "Writer Without Borders" July 14, 2006 In These Times
- ^ "Rey Azucar" Los Fabulosos Cadillacs Official Site
- ^ "Reference"
[edit] External links
Books — Open Veins of Latin America (1971) | Genesis (Memory of Fire Trilogy, Part 1) (1982) | Faces and Masks (Memory of Fire Trilogy, Part 2) (1984) | Century of the Wind (Memory of Fire Trilogy, Part 3) (1986) | Soccer in Sun and Shadow (1995) | Upside Down (2000) | Voices of Time (2004)
