This book was really interesting and well-written. The book is written with a big-time bias towards socialism and nationalism, which was not a problem for me because it was refreshingly different from the capitalist and free market bias that is propagated in the history books that I've read. This book left me wondering how I could possibly remember all of the information contained in it without re-reading it at least 5 times and also wondering how I'm going to be able to get ahold of Galeano's thoughts about the subject in the last 30 years. I would recommend it highly with the caveat that it required quite a bit of patience to read and that I tried 3 times before I actually got all the way through it.