![]() ![]() Interviewed last May about the book often called the “Bible of the Latin American Left,” Galeano said, “I don’t regret having written it, but it belongs to a time that to me has been overcome.” His words left a sense of abandonment and deceit among many, who asked: What had happened to the bleeding veins of Latin America drained by European and U.S. Forty-three years after its publication, the emblematic and widely read Latin American anti-colonialist bestseller The Open Veins of Latin America has been disowned by its creator, 74-year-old Eduardo Galeano – but its literary message remains vital. ![]()
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