Resistencia, identidad y dependencia en Eduardo Galeano

The work of Eduardo Galeanohas had a huge impact in Latin America as well aselsewhere. It most impressive book, The OpenVeins of Latin America, published in 1971 the firsttime, has enjoyed over fifty editions in Spanishalready, plus other editions in several otherlanguages. This work whit memories of fire,represent a coherent wholw and they ought to beread together. Other writings have followed eversince such as the Book of Embraces and books onthe environment, women, football, neo-liberalismand so forth. In these publications Galeano presentsus with a powerful, altohough highly poetic, prosethat exposes the barbarities committed against ourcontinent in over 500 years. For Galeano, AmericaLatina is being made, has been made and it will becontinued to be made by the unavoidable strugglesof the oppressed. His message is, therefore, on ofpraise and encouragement of resitance, both passiveand active, against the horrors inflict upon so manyby so few. The need to maintain and perpetuate suchna unjust system is required by the mechanisms ofaccumulation the “system” has designed, perfect andmade ever more brutal with every cycle of capitalistaccumulation humanity has been forced to gothrough. This system has robbed of our own beingin the process and Galeano, with his simple butpowerful writings, has undertaken to recover thesources of our identity-to-be