The Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of Pillage

«The Open Veins of Latin America» — is the story of 500 years of plunder following Columbus's first voyage, and the saddest events of this region, from slavery and genocide of indigenous peoples to new economic colonization, neoliberalism, and the falsification of trade rules. Shortly after the book was published in 1971, Eduardo Galeano, a Uruguayan journalist and writer, was exiled, and his work, banned in several Latin American countries, became iconic.
Eduardo Galeano tells a story in which the main characters are gold and silver, cocoa and coffee, cotton and rubber, oil and iron — the veins running through the body of the entire continent, — and in which scientific analysis intertwines with the drama of the plundered people.