"De acuerdo con los términos de este breve pero jugoso manifiesto capitalista, la ley de la selva es el código que naturalmente rige la vida humana y la injusticia no existe, puesto que lo que conocemos por injusticia no es más que la expresión de la cruel armonía del universo: son países son pobres, son pobres porque... son pobres; el destino está escrito en los astros y solo nacemos para cumplirlo: unos, condenados a obedecer; otros señalados para mandar. El autor fue el artífice de la política del Fondo Monetario Internacional en Brasil."
— Eduardo Galeano, Las venas abiertas de America Latina
An emotionally charged and pointed rant. Galeano shows his strength as a writer to beautifully illustrate the wretched and depressing history of exploitation of Latin America's land, resources, and people from 1492 to modern day. Eschewing the hermetic language one might expect given the subject matter, Galeano chooses to talk to the reader in a way more akin to a senior craftsmen would address his trainee. Maybe a bit heavy handed some would say in his rhetoric, though given the topic i would say subtlety is for cowards. Overall a very easy book to digest whose only hurdle in the way of me finishing was the sheer amount of human misery being overviewed within its pages.
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