Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent

by Eduardo Galeano

“it’s worthwhile to die for things without which it’s not worthwhile to live.”

For the world today, America is just the United States; the region we inhabit is a sub-America, a second-class America of nebulous identity.

opulence,

penury.

The class struggle only exists, we are told, because foreign agents stir it up; but social classes do exist and the oppression of one by the other is known as the Western way of life.