Las Venas Abiertas de América Latina

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Summary: This book is MUST read for Every North and Latin American
Review: This Book was written By Galeano in 90 days ( moolighting) after his regular work in 1970. Yet it is the most enlightening account of 500 years of ransaking of a continent along with Genocide. This one and John Dos Pasos's USA, constitute the masterpieces in meta-historic literature. It is the story of spanish , british and american colonialism. What a shame for the guilty. A must read for all americans ( north and south of the border)... to see the naked truth. It also explains how this happened with the help of conquistadores, ( the Cross and the Sword)along with the more recent and most corrupt mother-land sellers, diplomacy, dictators and transnationals. A must read for burocrats and hypocrits in international finance agencies, as well as the lay people anywhere from the Bearing Strait to the Patagonia interested of knowing the facts of Latin American history. Like another reviewer wrote: "what I always suspected , just "did not know"