“Our defeat was always implicit in the victory of others; our
wealth has always generated our poverty by nourishing the
prosperity of others: the empires and their native overseers. In
the colonial and neocolonial alchemy, gold changes into scrap
metal and food into poison.”
Eduardo Galeano
The Open Veins of Latin America
wealth has always generated our poverty by nourishing the
prosperity of others: the empires and their native overseers. In
the colonial and neocolonial alchemy, gold changes into scrap
metal and food into poison.”
Eduardo Galeano
The Open Veins of Latin America