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Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent
by Eduardo Galeano • Cedric Belfrage (Translator)
- HISTORY
- 1998
- PAPER
- 317 PAGES
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The 25th anniversary edition of the landmark history of plunder and exploitation in Latin America. This wrenchingly beautiful book takes for one of its central metaphors the booms and busts of the Potosi mines in the Bolivian highlands. Using local slave labor, the 16th century Spaniards took billions of dollars worth of silver from a single hillside there. The British and Americans returned to the site centuries later to mine tin for their war machine. The book also takes on the banana republics of Central America, the Amazonian rubber plantations and the numerous American invasions throughout the region.
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