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 Perón, 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 Chávez 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
Open Veins of Latin America pdf :castro-stuff:
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trailer park boys was funnier when it was the early seasons and Ricky had like mind control jiujitsu powers over cops and mall security, it was a really funny bit
Man, how is there not more educational stuff out there for striped hyenas? Look at this beautiful animal:
Apparently they are very tameable which makes them more interesting, but also very stinky little guys so I will gladly admire them from afar, I just want more information about them!
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Big news! I love my kitty cat a lot!
She is so fucking cyooot
Edit: she also always keeps an eye out for me when I poop. Doing so now and she is watching the door like my bodyguard
My therapist told me point blank that I have BPD and although I seem to be much more self-aware than other sufferers, it has caused damage to my relationship. I feel like a monster now, I know that therapy will help and things will only get better but I can’t help but think of the harm I have already caused due to not knowing which of my behaviors are normal or not and feel guilty af. I truly love my gf, I hope that I can salvage it somehow
The catcher for the Detroit Tigers is named Dillon Dingler
Dr. Steve Brule ass name
The American flag is pretty damn ugly, huh.
Looks like toothpaste. Minty fresh fash. Yum.
Sometimes i have more fun modding a game than playing it. Got silksong, it runs on Unity 6, so its trivially decompilable. Got a Bepinex mod working and just browsing the source code looking for fun stuff to mod in. Currently have multipliers for Rosaries/Shards gained, Inf Silk, and allow equipping all unlocked charms.
My mom bounces back and forth sometimes but I think she’s fully vegan now. When asked about it by her coworkers she tells them it’s for health reasons and because she loves animals
Report is that there are more people unemployed than jobs available btw
My library webpage is nice, logged back on it to explore my reading list and damn I had some bangers there. It’s not that I stopped reading or anything it’s just it’s easier to find a pdf or audiobook now than to track and place a hold on a book I want from the library. Also like it’s less embarrassing finding a pdf for like something relating to sex or relationships for me tbh I don’t want the librarians to know what I don’t know.
silksong
got to greymoor before i had to pack up for my temp job today. its peam. still getting used to not being able to downpogo
I’m happy for everyone playing Silksong.
Enjoy the things that bring you happiness.
Hell yea, I’m going to get to indulge in a little hobby of mine & dive into world war 1 era newspaper archives for a school project
