Latin America's open veins

Las Venas Abiertas de América Latina

★ Liang Wendao, Liu Yu, Xiong Peiyun, and Xu Zhiyuan co-edited the "Ideal Country Translation Series" (MIRROR) series (033) - Maintain an open mind and non-utilitarian eyes to see the richness and complexity of the world. Uncover the historical truth of Latin America's century of solitude and deeply examine the political and economic environment of Latin America.
Latin America's Open Veins is a rare historical account and investigation. Galeano, a journalist by training, uses a wealth of persuasive and rarely seen material to dissect Latin America's turbulent 500-year history since Columbus's discovery of the New World, exposing the root causes of poverty and instability on the continent. This is perhaps the best account of primitive capital accumulation since Marx.
Since its publication, this book has been banned by several Latin American dictatorships, yet it continues to be reprinted and translated into over twenty languages, exerting a global influence. It has been recommended by former Paraguayan President Fernando Lugo, John Berger, and the French newspaper Le Monde, among others.
Why has Latin America, this rich and vast land that once gave birth to a brilliant civilization, become a poor and turbulent continent and a vassal?
In 1971, inspired by dependency theory, Uruguayan journalist, writer, and poet Eduardo Galeano published the world-shaking book, The Open Veins of Latin America, attempting to dissect Latin America's malaise and explore its future. Drawing on a wealth of irrefutable material and written with powerful, poignant prose, he unravels the continent's tumultuous fate since Columbus ushered in the new era of navigation, chronicling its suffering. Gold, silver, cocoa, cotton, rubber, coffee, fruit, oil, iron, nickel, manganese, copper, tin... these "veins" run through the continent, stretching to its expansive ends, where they flow into the treasure troves of Europe and the United States. Colonialism once brutally plundered this land; and modern civilized institutions like free trade, economic aid, joint ventures, and international organizations, similarly, engage in these ancient plundering wars through uncivilized means. Latin America is a region with its veins cut open, and its history of underdevelopment shapes the history of global capitalist development.
This book attempts to uncover the truth about Latin America's century of loneliness and allows us to hear the voices of the losers: the heroes who pursued Latin American independence and prosperity, and their failed revolutions. It epitomizes the tragedy of Latin America as a whole. Just as the history it reveals has been subject to official cover-ups and distortions, the book was banned by right-wing governments in Latin America shortly after its publication. However, it has traveled the world, translated into dozens of languages, and has long been embraced by a generation as a symbol of Latin American rebellion. Its arguments bear the imprint of its time, but its fate has become etched in history.

2018-11-01

南京大学出版社

Ideal Country

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