Open Veins of Latin America

Name: Open Veins of Latin America
Author: Eduardo Galeano

by Eduardo Galeano

Political analysis of Latin American economic exploitation and colonialism

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Eduardo Galeano

Uruguayan journalist and writer whose Open Veins of Latin America is the defining radical history of colonial and imperial exploitation in Latin America. Memory of Fire is his epic three-volume prose poem of American history. His work combines passionate political commitment with extraordinary literary beauty.

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