Eduardo Galeano, born on September 3rd in 1940, was a Uruguayan journalist and author known for, among other texts, his work "Open Veins of Latin America", which the editors of Monthly Review Press called "perhaps the finest description of the primary accumulation of capital since Marx".
Galeano began his career as a political cartoonist and journalist - at fourteen, he was contributing political cartoons to the socialist newspaper "El Sol". At 20, he was the managing director of "Marcha", a storied weekly in Uruguay.
Some of his high profile work as a journalist includes an interview with Juan Perรณn, a laudatory profile of Che Guevara, and a portrait of Pu Yi, the last emperor of China, who had just completed his Maoist re-education in a nondescript building on the outskirts of Beijing.
Galeano is perhaps best known for his book "Open Veins of Latin America", which details how, through five centuries of plunder by European conquistadors and American corporations, the region's abundant natural resources had been extracted to enrich a few local elites and many foreign interests.
The editors of Monthly Review Press, which published the U.S. edition, described the book as "perhaps the finest description of the primary accumulation of capital since Marx." President Hugo Chรกvez gave a Spanish-language copy of Open Veins to President Barack Obama on his first diplomatic visit to the region.
"The human murder by poverty in Latin America is secret: every year, without making a sound, three Hiroshima bombs explode over communities that have become accustomed to suffering with clenched teeth."
- Eduardo Galeano
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These fuckers at Nyx (a credit card payment processor) put a FIFTY DOLLAR hold on my account for charging my motorcycle. Fifty dollars for a transaction that would at most cost me ten. And it's been there in "pending" on my bank statement for a week now, preventing me from spending my own fucking money. I can't even get my bank to do anything about it while it's pending, I have to wait for it to expire on its own.
This shit needs to be illegal. There is no fucking reason why, in the modern world, the payment cannot automatically update to the correct amount as soon as the transaction completes - or that a hold even needs to be put on the account in the first place. When you're low on funds, it will tell you how much you have left, just query that number and then tell the charging station/gas pump/whatever else that that's the maximum amount it can dispense!
The only thing that makes sense to me is that they get something out of it, like they get to claim all of the money holds as assets and that adds up to a lot for a corporation, or some other financial services grifting bullshit. Fuck.
edit: oh and the punchline to all of this is that the charging station that created this account hold didn't even work. Both of my charges from the last time I rode my bike were done on Chargepoint stations (Nyx is used by Electrify America I think), and the prices have been correctly reflected in my account the entire time they've existed.