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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The Doomposting is getting worse.
My ex reached out, and it wont look like it's going good. Keeping an eye on the world at large while also having your own world to manage is draining, it's difficult, and i dont think it's offering me any additional capacity to happiness. "The world's on fire, but at least i have someone to be with during it" was my mindset. I'm redoubling my efforts, then i'm hearing that there are way more unemployed people than job openings, like we're expecting another crash to come. So far only one job's called me back, and it's to drive a truck. Fuck it, i might as well.
But with EVERYTHING happening in America, how can anyone think we can be fine? Following politics over a long view is like watching river water levels over the course of decades, you can see through to something bigger happening and you're powerless to stop things.
I dont think we've seen true doomerism yet. I really dont think people have hit their point of hopelessness. Something's coming that's going to hurt very badly. Tension that should lead to a bone breaking.