… The most heartening response came not from the book pages in the media but from real incidents in the streets. This book was written to have a talk with people. Seven years after publication, Galeano himself wrote: “Seven years have gone by since ‘Open Veins of Latin America’ was first published. Over the years, it has become a textbook of knowledge on the subject, in a way that ordinary textbooks cannot achieve. Galeano’s “Open Veins” is required reading for those who want to learn about Latin America. Written in the early 1970s, his book exposed the devastating ravages of imperialist domination in Latin America and the Caribbean, much as Walter Rodney’s book, “How Europe Underdeveloped Africa,” did for that continent. Eduardo Galeano, the Uruguayan writer most famous for his “Open Veins of Latin America,” died April 13 of lung cancer at the age of 74.
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