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Making the comparison between them and us and on cagarsi



''The Open Veins of Latin America''is a heavy book to read, although written in simple language and with an almost novelistic style, because Eduardo Galeano, digging under the''official''story that forces the oppressed to oppressor fabricated his memory, pull out historical data and economic truth, which highlight heavy, hard to swallow for us Westerners idiots, that is believed to be a vanguard of progress that because we are generous, we are exporting everywhere.

1) the origin of the concentration of wealth that gave birth to Western capitalism by violence, there are creeps. Pillage of raw materials from Latin America (even the shit of the seagulls and the pelicans have stolen, the guano for use as fertilizer!). Slave trade from Africa. Genocide.
The image of indigenous mothers who come to kill their children just to save them a lot more horrible death in the mines of gold and silver, will accompany me from that field.

2) After centuries has not changed a fuck all: The slave ships not furrowed over the ocean to Latin America. Now the slave traders operating according to the Ministry of Labour.

Actually, no, something has changed.
Today, as then, the capitalist industrialization marginalizes many more people than they can integrate. The development continues to be a trip with multiple shipwrecked sailors.
But today the center of the Empire has shrunk quite a bit '. And the periphery has expanded quite a bit '. Italy, for example, is now the outermost center. The Italians are more shipwrecked sailors. So

''The Open Veins of Latin America''is a valuable reading at this moment: to understand why they were fucked up, it becomes a defense against the risk of finding more and more fucked up too.

I do a quick summary, so everyone can mentally make the comparison between them and us and on cagarsi:

They were fucking because they never had a real political sovereignty.

They were fucking because they are increasingly indebted to foreign financial institutions.

They were fucking because instead of developing technology, have always imported from abroad.

They were fucking because, instead of protect domestic firms, have left full freedom to foreign companies, which due to starvation wages, taxes and ridiculous absence of rules, were able to repatriate most of the profits. It has led to a jack ass that is so diabolical as to seem impossible: Money, with its wings, traveling without a passport. Much of the profits from the exploitation of Latin America takes flight to the United States, Switzerland and Germany or to other countries, where it makes a nice somersault to back converted into loans.

Translation: I come home, eat what you have in the fridge, I sell all your furniture, I keep the money, then I say "If you need money I can lend at 10%. But do not worry, if he fails to return home and leave me so we'll get it. "

short, I under-development because thou: Underdevelopment is not a stage of development. It is its consequence.

The question is: we allow those who have oppressed us, making us inflict even the lame joke to sell wheelchairs?

(The phrases in italics are all quotes from''The Open Veins of Latin America,''Eduardo Galeano, ed. Sperling & Kupfer, pp. 363, 15 €)