I got a litttttlle lost in the latter half, but still giving it 5 stars because this book is so dam important. I want everyone to read this. I want to leave a copy of this in everyone's house.

Mirrors: Stories of Almost Everyone, also by Galeano, is probably ranked in my top favorite books of all time. Open Veins is much more textbook-y, but still compulsively readable and mostly approachable. Eduardo Galeano is, in my very humble opinion, one of the best minds our world has seen. And the lessons he has to share in Open Veins and in Mirrors are important. 

"Latin American underdevelopment is not a stage on the road to development, but the counterpart to development elsewhere."

"In these lands we are not experiencing the primitive infancy of capitalism but its vicious senility."