The lion does not and will never capitulate, yet blood flows from bullet-hole wounds. The poachers are winged and foreign to the lion’s land, as well as dispassionate, or passionate only to wealth’s nefarious whispers. His most recent book to be translated into English, “ Mirrors,” is due out in June.Imagine: a proud lion has been chased, shot and trapped by poachers who descended heavy-footed upon his land. In later years, Galeano turned to fiction and “fictive” histories. In 2000, Galeano told the Times that it was a book about political economy “written in the style of a novel about love or pirates.” The historian Gerald Martin describes Galeano’s appeal as similar to that of George Orwell: each is “a writer of immense influence who cannot be easily pigeonholed.” Like many of Orwell’s political writings, “Open Veins” remains fresh because of the power of its storytelling. Given its currency with contemporary Latin American leaders (Chávez is not alone), it may come as a surprise to learn that, years after the publication of “Open Veins,” Galeano decided that the book “reduced history to just one dimension.” Part polemic, part history, and part “talk with the people” “Open Veins” has at its heart what many critics now consider a simplistic model of dependency, and a fuzzy prediction that Latin America is “entering times of rebellion and change.” Its continued popularity has much to do with its style. It has sold steadily ever since, in Latin America and around the world, with more than fifty Spanish editions, and translations into more than a dozen languages. Galeano, who is Uruguayan, wrote it in the last three months of 1970, and was eventually forced into exile as the book grew in popularity.
imperialism and the ruling élites of Latin America from a Marxist-Leninst perspective), the book has a fascinating history. Whatever one thinks of its message (it denounces both U.S. Though I’m sure “ Un Brazalete Tricolor” is every bit as riveting as “Dreams from My Father,” Obama should be glad to be in possession of “Open Veins,” which shot to number eleven on Amazon within hours of Obama receiving it. I was going to give him one of mine,” Obama quipped. President Obama got in several good lines during his trip to meet with Latin American leaders on Saturday, but the funniest came when reporters asked about the book that Hugo Chávez, the president of Venezuela, gave him: “ The Open Veins of Latin America,” by Eduardo Galeano.
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