View this email in your browser Reading Galeano in Costa Rica I recently had occasion to re-read Eduardo Galeano’s book, the Open Veins of Latin America, and to do it while traveling in Costa Rica. Open Veins was written in 1970, and remains relevant a half-century later (and it would have been current and relevant to debates half a century before, had it been written in 1920). There are some heart-rending moments, where Galeano talks full of hope about Salvador Allende’s plans in Chile (Allende was overthrown in 1973). But there is also vindication – he talks about how much progress the Cuban Revolution has made in a decade (by 1970) and half a century later, Cuba is sending its doctors to save lives all over the world. In the decades after Galeano’s book, Cuba also helped overthrow South African apartheid, which must have seemed an intractable reality when Galeano wrote
Newsletter: Reading Galeano in Costa Rica
Newsletter: Reading Galeano in Costa Rica
Newsletter: Reading Galeano in Costa Rica
View this email in your browser Reading Galeano in Costa Rica I recently had occasion to re-read Eduardo Galeano’s book, the Open Veins of Latin America, and to do it while traveling in Costa Rica. Open Veins was written in 1970, and remains relevant a half-century later (and it would have been current and relevant to debates half a century before, had it been written in 1920). There are some heart-rending moments, where Galeano talks full of hope about Salvador Allende’s plans in Chile (Allende was overthrown in 1973). But there is also vindication – he talks about how much progress the Cuban Revolution has made in a decade (by 1970) and half a century later, Cuba is sending its doctors to save lives all over the world. In the decades after Galeano’s book, Cuba also helped overthrow South African apartheid, which must have seemed an intractable reality when Galeano wrote