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“…the Indians [of Brazil] have been machine-gunned from helicopters & light airplanes & inoculated with smallpox virus, that dynamite has been tossed into their villages, & that they have been given gifts of sugar mixed with strychnine & salt mixed with arsenic.”

sentences so cartoonishly evil you have to fact check and. well! https://amp.theguardian.com/world/201...

oh it’s the exact same rhetoric that they used against the jewish people of europe and the native people of the americas. okay. cool. what if the catholic church exploded

if hell exists every spanish royal is there

"The strength of the imperialist system as a whole rests on the necessary inequality of its parts, and this inequality assumes ever more dramatic dimensions. [...] The capitalist 'head office' can allow itself the luxury of creating and believing its own myths of opulence, but the poor countries on the capitalist periphery know that myths cannot be eaten."

holy shit galeano's writing