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 PerΓ³n, 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 ChΓ‘vez 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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Earlier today an older coworker was talking about their family to another coworker "I don't get why people of that generation just want to sit around and play videogames all day."
Like Ma'am, are you just shooting the shit or do you genuinely need a reminder that the average person has been consistently priced out of reality for years now?
These people do nothing about covid / disability and wonder why people might not have the time or energy to do anything besides sit at home. Hell, even non-disabled and non-sick people have the life drained out of them every day. The fact that people still have to go to work despite these awful conditions is the ultimate proof of economic coercion that should be undeniable.