Eduardo Galeano: Author who chronicled the West's plundering of...

'Power is like a violin,' he once noted, 'it is held by the left hand and played by the right' Eduardo Galeano's anti-capitalist polemic The Open Veins of Latin America served for decades as a lodestar for leftist dissenters around the world. Last year, however, he startled his admirers when he impugned the book's writing and scholarly value.

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