Open Veins of Latin America
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| Author | Eduardo Galeano |
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| Original title | Las venas abiertas de América Latina |
| Translator | Cedric Belfrage |
| Country | Uruguay |
| Language | Spanish |
| Subject | History of Latin America |
| Publisher | Monthly Review Press |
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Publication date
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1971 |
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Published in English
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1973 (1st edition) 1997 (25th Anv. edition) |
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| Pages | xiii, 317 p. |
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| OCLC | 37820142 |
| 330.98 21 | |
| LC Class | HC125 .G25313 1997 |
Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent (in Spanish: Las Venas Abiertas de América Latina) is a book written by Uruguayan journalist, writer and poet Eduardo Galeano, published in 1971. It has sold over a million copies and been translated into over a dozen languages, and has been included in university courses "ranging from history and anthropology to economics and geography."
In the book Galeano analyzes the history of Latin America as a whole, from the time period of the European settlement of the New World to contemporary Latin America, describing the effects of European and later United States economic exploitation and political dominance over the region.
The Library Journal review stated, "Well written and passionately stated, this is an intellectually honest and valuable study."
Galeano wrote Open Veins of Latin America in Uruguay while working as an independent journalist and editor and while employed in the publishing department of the University of the Republic. He said, "It took four years of researching and collecting the information I needed, and some 90 nights to write the book". Shortly after the publication of Open Veins, in 1973, a military junta took power in Uruguay, forcing Galeano into exile; for its left-wing perspective the book was banned under the right-wing of Brazil, Chile, Argentina and Uruguay.
In the foreword to the 1997 edition, Isabel Allende stated that "after the military coup of 1973 I could not take much with me: some clothes, family pictures, a small bag of dirt from my garden, and two books: an old edition of the Odes by Pablo Neruda and the book with the yellow cover, Las venas abiertas de América Latina".
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