Book Review - Open Veins of Latin America by Eduardo Galeano
Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent by Eduardo Galeano | Goodreads ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Highly Recommended Where to Read: Open Veins of Latin America “They don’t let people see what I write because I write what I see.” - Blas de Otero Written in 1971, the era of some of the darkest years of the Latin American dictatorships, Open Veins of Latin America carries a sense of urgency that is both political and deeply human. Open Veins of Latin America first confronted the readers (me too) as a book of horrors; only afterwards does its vast history begin to settle in the mind. It is not a gentle awakening but a slap from sleep. Page after page, Galeano forces us to look at what the modern world would rather forget. Reading it is emotionally exhausting. Horror gives way to grief, grief hardens into anger, and anger finally becomes awareness. This is perhaps exactly what Galeano intended: not passive sympathy, but a refusal to see injustice as natural, di...