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The open veins of Latin America Book Summary

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Author : Galeano Eduardo
Summary by : adriana29
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This abstract was translated from As veias abertas da América Latina
THE OPEN VEINS OF LATIN AMERICA It counts to the history of Latin America, the way where she is clear will usurp it by means of paises dominant, where the effective capitalism in them is tax, having created our current crises, Latin America, in is placed them as a simple addend, serving only for the interests of the rich countries, its exploration if it gives since the beginning of its existence, for in such a way is refused the aboriginal culture causing the counted genocides today for our history, the exploration of our wealth comes happening since always and all the income-producing goods serve to this; in the attempt of if breaching with this I circulate vicious in them had been imposed the dictatorships, sponsored, for the United States or still for countries of the economic elite; in our agriculture we benefit to the large state with sights á exportation, what cause price increasing for our population of the basic products for the subsistence in consequence to this, the hunger and the increase of the misery; in counterpoint the same countries that come exerting our exploration in its way of agriculture had benefited familiar agriculture, with this supplying in first place its proper necessities, as consequence had expanded its businesses through the world, in internal and external its politics protect the nationalism, and in them they push guela the low a americanismo, the cultural imposition, its peoples possess very superior conditions of life ours, where access stops they it á education of quality is common, as well as feeding and health, the opposite of our reality, the exportations carried through for the american countries Latin generate profits only to the profiteers, who since our settling come finding forms of to keep this dependence where who has more continues to gain more, the Latin American continues being enslaved, therefore our conditions of work are péssimas and although to be considered free citizens our hand of workmanship it is explored of evident form on behalf of the invisible hand of the market; in industrialization the panorama was not given of different form on behalf of, progress follows norms and standards where never a quarrel on the part of the population becoming possible the comment of the real possibility of an industrialization that had its principles pautados in our necessities, with the American aid on behalf of a economic growth was possible that until today did not arrive; in the American current days still it is possible to also observe that you manufacture north if they install in Latin America with financial support and continues its exploration, of worked ours, in this way creating proper and contributed benefits one more time for itself for the perpetuation of the social inaquality; for intermediary of the technique we can observe that the power of the knowledge always was in foreign hands, that if they use of it of the form that it convém; ours politics happens in the same way, that one politician who when arriving at the power does not serve to the dominant interests finishes for not obtaining to govern; as alternative, we must have conscience of our history, where with a good project it is possible to the citizen to recognize itself as American North and with deep changes in the education and the agrarian question one becomes possible to invert this picture; it is necessary for that in the field politician it exists the ethics and the search of the quality of life for all the citizen Latin, observing our differences and supplying the American necessities Latin

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