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"The division of labor among nations is that some specialize in winning and others in losing" - thus Galeano begins this history of Latin America from Columbus to Castro and there is no doubt as to what side the continent is on. It is "a sub-America, a second-class America of nebulous identity," "at the service of others' needs," forced to work "as a menial" first for Britain and then for the U.S.A. while within itself the larger nations prey upon the smaller and the cities suck the rural areas. Latifundia - and also minifundia, their opposite - are "bottlenecks choking the growth of agriculture"; prosperity generated by mono-"plunder-cultures" (sugar, tin, cacao) vanishes when boom turns to bust; industrial development in the cities leads to greater urban poverty. What is urgently needed, in lieu of a "creative bourgeoisie" which these countries never had and never will, is an agrarian-based, Fanon-type revolution with a Castro as caudillo. Galeano affirms that Cuba (its dependence on Russia ignored) is using its sugar-culture "as an instrument of development"; the people work from "enthusiasm," not out of greed or hunger, since socialist societies do away with both as motives. Ideological propinquities becloud other assessments - of the British abolitionists or birth control campaigns - but one cannot say entirely nay; this horrific history, graphically and indignantly portrayed, is sadly how it was and is. (Kirkus Reviews)
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`A valuable study' - Sunday Business Post --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
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"The division of labor among nations is that some specialize in winning and others in losing" - thus Galeano begins this history of Latin America from Columbus to Castro and there is no doubt as to what side the continent is on. It is "a sub-America, a second-class America of nebulous identity," "at the service of others' needs," forced to work "as a menial" first for Britain and then for the U.S.A. while within itself the larger nations prey upon the smaller and the cities suck the rural areas. Latifundia - and also minifundia, their opposite - are "bottlenecks choking the growth of agriculture"; prosperity generated by mono-"plunder-cultures" (sugar, tin, cacao) vanishes when boom turns to bust; industrial development in the cities leads to greater urban poverty. What is urgently needed, in lieu of a "creative bourgeoisie" which these countries never had and never will, is an agrarian-based, Fanon-type revolution with a Castro as caudillo. Galeano affirms that Cuba (its dependence on Russia ignored) is using its sugar-culture "as an instrument of development"; the people work from "enthusiasm," not out of greed or hunger, since socialist societies do away with both as motives. Ideological propinquities becloud other assessments - of the British abolitionists or birth control campaigns - but one cannot say entirely nay; this horrific history, graphically and indignantly portrayed, is sadly how it was and is. (Kirkus Reviews)
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`A valuable study' - Sunday Business Post --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
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