Open Veins of Latin America

Part 1 of Red Library's Revolutionary Politics in Central and South America Series Comrade Rhie joins us in the library this week to work through the fire and beauty that is Eduardo Galeano's Open Veins of Latin America. As this is the introductory episode to our series, we focus on distilling the structural and historical factors that have shaped politics in Central and South America such as colonization, capitalism, and racism throughout the last 5 centuries. We try to balance the political economic analysis offered by Galeano with staying true to his poetic descriptions of the untold suffering inflicted on Central and South America throughout centuries of colonial and imperial expansion. I think we pull it off quite well.  Further Reading/References Eduardo Galeano  Open Veins of Latin America Summary  Edward Said  Orientalism by Edward Said Chilean 1973 Coup D'Etat Tariq Ali Comrade Adam's Introduction to Anti-Imperialism Reading List James Baldwin  Quinoa Production Boom Goes Bust in the Andes Meat Production and Global Warming The Poverty of Philosophy by Immortal Technique The Moors that Conquered Spain Galeano's Recent Thoughts on Open Veins of Latin America Colorism Allan Dulles John Foster Dulles ------------------------------------------------ Email us at [email protected] Follow us on Twitter at Red Library@red_library_pod Click here to subscribe to Red Library on iTunes  Click here to support Red Library on Patreon Click here to find Red Library on Facebook Click here to find the host's political theory blog, Capillaries: Theory at the Front