Open Veins of Latin America
Subtitle: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent
By: Eduardo Galeano ; translated by Cedric Belfrage.
Edition: 25th anniversary ed. / foreword by Isabel Allende.
Publisher: Monthly Review Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Translated from: spa
Translation of: Las venas abiertas de America Latina
Number of pages: 317
Subjects: Latin America -- Economic conditions
Description: [In this book, the author's] analysis of the effects and causes of capitalist underdevelopment in Latin America present [an] account of... Latin American history. [The author] shows how foreign companies reaped huge profits through their operations in Latin America. He explains the politics of the Latin American bourgeoisies and their subservience to foreign powers, and how they interacted to create increasingly unequal capitalist societies in Latin America. -Back cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 287-305) and index.