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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I discovered some fun(tm) things about baldur's gate 3 lately on linux.
if you're using a CPU that needs core parking (like a CPU with P/E cores, or an X3D chip with more than one CCD) AND using
gamemoderunto run the game, the audio in the game won't work. The solution is not to usegamemoderun(or disable core parking in its ini file), as the game will do its own core parking and if you're doing it it'll crash trying to spawn audio threads. Apparently this affects Windows users using Process Lasso as well!If you love Wayland and want to get on the XWayland-free gravy train, you might know that using GE-Proton gives you new env vars you can use
PROTON_ENABLE_WAYLAND=1(No XWayland needed! For me this means more stable VRR, better Alt-Tab support, etc.) and evenPROTON_ENABLE_HDR=1(HDR without Gamescope! Works only on some games, apparently not on Vulkan-native games yet). I lost several hours tonight to this trying to play the damn game over the Internet with a friend and suffering from what appeared to be network issues - my character would rubber-band, it would take seconds and multiple clicks to activate an ability, there'd be huge delays in any action I'd take. Even though my framerate was a smooth 170 or w/e the entire time! No stuttering! Nope, it wasPROTON_ENABLE_WAYLAND. Removing that fixed it. Why does running in Wayland directly cause this game to act like its running over a 56k modem (only when connected to another player)? I don't know, why does parking cores kill audio?? I hear this is an issue on Windows too, or was at some point, if you had VSync off.I suffered. Maybe you won't have to.