Eduardo Galeano

It was a sunny Monday morning and my heart was still racing thinking about the trip I was about to take. Spring break had a special feeling to it that I very much enjoyed. I packed so many things in my bag that there wasn’t much left in my room after. But I wanted to be well prepared for this trip. Along with being excited about the trip, there was also a little bit of fear that came with it when considering all the bad things that could happen. The Amazon jungle can be a very beautiful, but also

General Augusto Pinochet took power. His government "tortured and murdered thousands of Chileans. He sent tanks into the streets to discourage the curiosity of those who wanted to investigate his crimes"(Galeano, Upside Down, 193). When he retired in 1998, he made himself a senator for life. In Eduardo Galeano's book Upside Down: A Primer for the Looking-Glass World, he tells, In the middle of 1978, while Argentina's soccer team was hosting and winning the World Cup, the country's military dictatorship

Eduardo Galeano’s Children of the Days presents historical events from a completely new perspective that is eye opening to those of us who have simply learned history through a textbook. By presenting different perspectives on historical events in a different light, Galeano demonstrates the fact that history has more than one side, and to fully understand the events one must attempt to view all perspectives. Galeano touches on many different topics within the book, however, his critique of religion

Labor exploitation was the key for the effectiveness of european expansion in the new world and define slavery as a principal component for global capitalism until it was not longer profitable. The atlantic slave trade influence europe economic growth and market development to rapidly spread through the atlantic trade. It was a intense dependence on the triangular trade that made merchants made big profits at the expense of the exploited labour abroad. Merchants were involved in all three sides

Veins of Latin America is the book to remember. Uruguayan author Eduardo Galeano is responsible for the creation of this relevant and controversial masterpiece, which follows the history of Latin America and the Caribbean through centuries of struggle against poverty and those imperial powers who abused of Latin American resources and created inequality. With a leftist political point of view, magic realism and historical events, Galeano epitomizes a Latin America craving redemption and progress. He

Galeano interrupts the freedom of Latin America is that the only way is to process through violence and propraiting the means of production from those who have abused them. Countries with democratic capitalist will improve the connections with one another will improve causing a positive effect on the international global countries. Freedom in the Open Veins of Latin America, Galeano argues that the Europeans gave rise to exploitation that

“In the 1500s, Spanish and Portuguese colonizers imposed their language, their religion, and their social institutions on the indigenous Americans and enslaved Africans, people who labored for them in mines and fields and who served them, too, at table and in bed” (Chasteen 5). Many people would say this is where inequality in Latin America began, with colonization. However, colonization is just a small piece of the roots of inequality of the region, which actually started with the natives of the

Eyes(2009) is a film written by Eduardo Sacheri and the director Juan José Campanella. The film was released in August 13, 2009. The film took place in during the mid 1970s in Argentina. During 1976 is the time is when the Argentina’s Dirty War was happening. The Dirty War was a war in Argentina when the military had power and was there to overthrow Isabel Peron. As Galeano stated, “The same process of repressing and strangling the people occurred under Ongania in Argentina” (Galeano, 212-213). More the 30

expansion to the “New World” was detrimental to Latin America; not only did it deplete the resources, but it created widespread poverty and instability. In Open Veins of Latin America, Eduardo Galeano maintains that Latin America “exist[s] at the service of others’ needs, as a source of [natural resources],” (Galeano 1). This Dependista perspective highlights the exploitation Latin Americans have suffered because of European colonization. It argues that Europeans made Latin America dependent on other

These can be seen on an individual level to a national one. On this point, Eduardo Galeano wrote “Open Veins of Latin America,” encapsulating the progressive impoverishment from the 1500s till the 1970s. The focus of Galeano rests on making clear the extensive extraction of wealth from Latin America. The first chapter digs up the ugly history of gold and silver mining in Potosi (Bolivia). The dehumanization