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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Why are my parents willing to spend hundreds of dollars on a water hydrogenator because hydrogen water might somehow help my mom with her cancer but they refuse to consider any application of marijuana to help her deal with the chemo
Hydrogen water? โฆ like I know itโs some dumb grift, but what do people think is in water currently?
I haven't looked into it because I think it's entirely bullshit but my dad sent me like a bunch of "studies" and shit about it and it is theoretically possible to dissolve hydrogen into water
it's just I don't think the $300ish thing they got on their counter is going to be capable of either extracting atmospheric hydrogen (lol) or generating it by electrolysis under enough pressure (very dangerous i imagine, having a pressurized explosive gas generated by electrolysis) to actually meaningfully dissolve any of it into the water, and I'm pretty sure that even if it did once it's no longer under pressure the hydrogen would just, yknow, yeet itself out as fast as possible
and yeah like even if it DID work I don't know what the proposed mechanism for action is, I guess they vaguely think hydrogen acts like an antioxidant or something, I don't fucking know
I told my dad it sounded like bullshit and he sent me like 5 links and then I didn't read any of them because it seems like a lot of effort when, ultimately, I don't want to be the one to take some hope away from my mom even if it is some bullshit hope. The placebo effect is still an effect and I don't want to be the guy being like "yeah mom this shit isn't going to do fuck all to help your cancer." At least they're getting professional medical treatment with it. They're just... scared. I get it.
I just think it's turbo fucked that decades of propaganda and a decade of arguing with me over weed has them doing shit like that when like, I could be making her some tinctures and shit that (while not guaranteed to) might at least help her with the side effects of her chemo. but ah no that's the devil's drug