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“The open veins of Latin America” is a boring undocumented book, admits his author
Uruguayan author Eduardo Galeano said in an interview published on the Argentine newspaper Perfil.com that he considers his 1971 book “The Open Veins of Latin America”, by far his best-known work, to be so bad he will no longer read from it during public appearances. Read full article
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May 08th, 2014 - 05:25 am - Link - Report abuse 0Stevie touched himself reading this.
May 08th, 2014 - 05:26 am - Link - Report abuse 0Capitalism is an imperialist economic system. ONLY.
May 08th, 2014 - 10:30 am - Link - Report abuse 0All people living within capitalist systems are explored. It's as if the owners of capital would put carrots in front of the eyes of rabbits, in this case people, causing people to be running the treadmill to move the economy to fill the piggy bank capitalists who live in Aspen drinking hot chocolate and enjoying beautiful women.
And you will not tell me that everyone has the same opportunities because it is not true.
@3 Give me an example of ANY economic system that gives everyone the same opportunities.
May 08th, 2014 - 11:10 am - Link - Report abuse 0Not exist. But that is no reason for our inaction and contemplation of capitalism. We need to rethink our model of economic, social and political life.
May 08th, 2014 - 11:17 am - Link - Report abuse 0As things are, the world will move towards a new era of revolutions and dissensions.
Yet another leftie who has realised he was wrong.
May 08th, 2014 - 11:28 am - Link - Report abuse 0@5
May 08th, 2014 - 12:14 pm - Link - Report abuse 0There will be no revolutions or dissensions in stable countrys. Only perhaps in collapsing economys. So the world...no. Some....possibly.
3, 5, Brassiero
May 08th, 2014 - 12:36 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Must be a different operator again - this “Brassiero” is not a rambling incoherent mess.
“he did not have the “necessary education” in economics and politics at the time he composed it”
May 08th, 2014 - 12:52 pm - Link - Report abuse 0That really wasn't an issue for those uncritical fools who swallowed it all.
I have to say that Galeano should be commended for his self-criticism here.
@5 No, there will be no new world order or huge revolution. If you are pinning your hopes for the future on that you need to think again.
May 08th, 2014 - 12:54 pm - Link - Report abuse 0People, by dint of their nature, will never be equal. You can strive for equal opportunities for all but even that is near nigh impossible to achieve (though we shouldn't stop trying). The best society can do is build a structure within the law and to make it the social norm through education that people should be offered equal opportunities.
What you fail to understand is that people simply are not equal. Some are better looking, have better genes, are genetically healthier, are sociopathic, are more intelligent etc. There is no real equality.
Laws can help to make it easier for the disadvantaged. Education can pull people out of poverty. Society can elect to help the less able. But ultimately there is no perfect model where everyone is equal and everyone is the same.
People are individuals with different abilities, emotions, dreams, ideals, cultures, and opinions. That is what makes us human.
Mr. Galeano is dead right!
May 08th, 2014 - 01:39 pm - Link - Report abuse 0The Manual of the perfect Latin American idiot lists Galeano's book number 10, among the ten books that most impressed the Latin American idiot.
Philippe
@8 Troy Tempest
May 08th, 2014 - 01:59 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Yep, I noticed that. A while again Brasilopseudo, was pumping out youtube videos of goose stepping Brazilian soldiers and bragging about BRICS and GDP, all in imperfect English.
Defiantly a different cyber warrior logged into this account today; think they'd have the sense to keep a crib sheet or 'legend' for each profile on the office wall somewhere. “British_Kirchnerist” is in the building today so think he's doing a double shift with this one - looks like a similar style.
This Brasileiro equates women with a hot beverage, so much equality and no more exploitation heh?
May 08th, 2014 - 02:49 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Tosser.
12 FI_Frost
May 08th, 2014 - 04:24 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Yes, funny how BK pops up when the other Trolls are on 'holiday'!
Sometimes a few of them sound very similar.
Do you think they are taking a week long “May Day - Int'l Workers Day” as a holiday?
As if any of them know what working is...
So rewarding, following my little tussle with Think over the 'qualities' of this great work, that the author himself comes out and agrees with me.
May 08th, 2014 - 08:00 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Oh, yes, it's been a good day :-)
Mind you, the expose of Galeano's 'The Open Veins' (1971), the 'Guide to the Perfect Latin American Idiot' (1996) was no great literary work either, in spite of the MV Llosa contribution.
But I am happy to accept that both books translated poorly into English.
@ Geoff
May 08th, 2014 - 10:39 pm - Link - Report abuse 0The open veins translated fine in to English.
It is just a boring rant about an imaginary foe, no subtleties or nuances to lose in translation.
Hi, Condor #16
May 09th, 2014 - 09:29 am - Link - Report abuse 0Galeano says he did not have the “necessary education” in economics and politics at the time he composed it, and that “Its traditional leftist-style prose is awful”.
My contention was always with the econo-political argument, which I found multiply flawed. This was amply supported when the Latin American Idiot came out in the 90s.
If the translation was 'good' then I must have been seriously upset with the rhetoric of the Left that it forced on me through all those tedious pages.
Anyway, I guess his 'volte face' would allow him to get a Green Card now, should he ever need one ;-)
An entire generation of Uruguayan left-wingers and terrorists based their hatred of democracy on Hughes-Galeano's work.
May 09th, 2014 - 08:46 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Fiction or Non fiction?
May 09th, 2014 - 09:14 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Have to admit can not remember the last time I read a book by a SA Author and I love absolutely love to read.
Is he good?
@ 18 ynsere
May 09th, 2014 - 09:46 pm - Link - Report abuse 0So that’s where our murdering commie bastard who is our president got his ideas from?
I wonder who read it to him?
Perhaps there is a book titled “How to commit suicide when your commie ideas are proved to be rubbish”.
They would have to print it sideways to get the title on the cover! :o)
Ah now I get it, yet another South American writing about revolution.
May 09th, 2014 - 11:02 pm - Link - Report abuse 0No doubt it has a marker with left wing academics and the like.
Who the fuck is he, never heard of himm 99.9999% of the literate world have either!
Chris @ 20
May 10th, 2014 - 12:59 am - Link - Report abuse 0Alas, no such book. If there were they'd all have done themselves in when the Russians invaded Czechoslovakia. Instead of which people like Mujica and his mates took up arms against the democratically elected government and became terrorists. Vásquez, on the other hand, was busy relieving his cancer patients of their cash.
Check @ 21
Actually Hughes-Galeano's books are well known, and admired by a certain stripe of biased readership. You should learn about him: he did a lot of damage.
Besides the fact that Capitalism is a failure (Mercantilism brought prosperity to the world, since then replaced by Capitalism that has created crisis after crisis and concentration of wealth), it is trying to be imposed on Latin America.
May 10th, 2014 - 03:32 am - Link - Report abuse 0I don't know about the other countries, but that will never work in Argentina. CApitalism was tried and was a dismal failure, and certainly is not coming back. The more the rest of the world tries to impose it upon us the more we will simply reject and refuse.
23 nostrils
May 10th, 2014 - 04:41 am - Link - Report abuse 0you had corrupt versions of Socialism and Fascism, that centrally controlled the economy, NOT real Capitalism.
It's debatable whether you have Democracy, even
*rolls eyes in disbelief *
When will the rest of Latin America catch up with Chile and Colombia and give up this immature fantasy about ”Socialism?
May 10th, 2014 - 11:43 am - Link - Report abuse 0When ever they try it they fail. Why?
1. Corruption seems to be a cultural trait and is impregnated in political establishment of many Latin American countries.
2. Socialism is a bit crap really. Just brings everyone down to the poorest level of equality and still needs a ruling class to try and keep the wheels turning. This ruling class always consists of the most avaricious, self-serving bastards known to man. (See point #1).
Mercopress hitting new lows on parroting “news”.
May 10th, 2014 - 04:43 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Not only is Las Venas a timeless book, but according to Galeano himself, ALL his posterior work is to be viewed as adding chapters to that piece.
Bunch of parrots...
26 Stevie
May 10th, 2014 - 06:38 pm - Link - Report abuse 0According to Galeano himself...
“Although he doesn’t regret having written it, Galeano told the site, he believes he did not have the “necessary education” in economics and politics at the time he composed it. “That traditional leftist-style prose is awful,” he said.
Stevie,
”not enough education in politics and economics“
” ...Leftist prose ... Awful... !!'l
Galeano the prophet, has recanted, but his disciples carry on...
That's you, Stevie.
Too funny !!
Who said he said?
May 10th, 2014 - 06:48 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Show me ONE link with Galeano saying what you are parroting about.
All I see is a bunch of sensationist news sources parroting eachother.
And here you are...
“posterior work”
May 10th, 2014 - 07:01 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Arse work more likely!
Bahahaha!
Oh how all you rightist Brits seem to love it when a few words seem to support your absurd notions about leftist politics. The last part of the article, which really says a lot more than Galeano himself, says it all about the sellouts: “ . . . now a comfortable board member of pharmaceutical labs in Uruguay, thus joins a list of Latin American left wing intellectuals who after having influenced with ideology whole generations don't feel comfortable with some of their most emblematic works.”
May 10th, 2014 - 08:44 pm - Link - Report abuse 0All it takes to buy an idiot and make him/her recant is a cushy seat and all the perks and extra money for doing little or nothing, kind of like the overpaid CEOs in Corporate America and the leftover elites in Latin America.
It does not take an economist or even a leftist, but merely an aware observer, to see the fanaticism with which the right wing elite in much of Latin America, in the USA, and in most of Europe will stop at nothing to reverse any trend that will take money out of their pockets and return some of it to those on whose backs they got it in the first place. Can't get good press in the media? Buy it out and dictate content. Can't get a leftist to recant? Givve him/her enough money and he/she will do it in a heartbeat. Even Judas had his price,
Does not that mean all 'leftists' are just closet capitalists then?
May 10th, 2014 - 09:28 pm - Link - Report abuse 0*wanders off in existential fugue*
@ 30 Fbear
May 10th, 2014 - 09:34 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“Blah, blah, blah..will stop at nothing to reverse any trend that will take money out of their pockets and return some of it to those on whose backs they got it in the first place”.
These would be the workers then? So they were not paid for doing their job then, is that the argument?
Were they held at knife or gunpoint to work “for the man”?
Dear oh dear, you are a simpleton.
Still googling, Troy?
May 10th, 2014 - 11:08 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Parrots...
Workers get paid right?
May 11th, 2014 - 12:16 am - Link - Report abuse 0I pay my staff. If they don't like the wage, conditions or the job itself they are free to bugger off and get a new job/start their own company and provide valuable employment for other families.
I don't live off anyone's 'back' and I am not ashamed to be a capitalist.
you'll have to change your sandwich-board now, Stevie.
May 11th, 2014 - 01:38 am - Link - Report abuse 0@35
May 11th, 2014 - 04:17 am - Link - Report abuse 0*chortle*
Well I did lots of googling and couldn't find a single example of Galeano claiming that he DIDN'T say this.
May 11th, 2014 - 06:54 am - Link - Report abuse 0You would think if he has been misquoted or taken out of context then there would be dozens of websites trumpeting his rebuttal or disclaimer.
But no.
Unless Stevie found some?
Stevie, forlornly at the podium of his Young Mendacious Commies of America ( YMCA ) meeting as disillusioned followers resign and file out, “aw, c'mon fellas, wait!! Communism wasn't so bad... fellas, fellas... c'mon... ”
May 11th, 2014 - 07:22 am - Link - Report abuse 0“aww... shit!”
Anglolatino
May 11th, 2014 - 09:38 am - Link - Report abuse 0Is that the same argument you use when you try to proove the existence of unicorns? “I can't find any proof they don't exist, hence...”
“Extra! Breaking news! Galeano did NOT say....”
Welcome to Anglo world.
So I'm guessing you can't find any reiteration or correction then Stevie?
May 11th, 2014 - 11:46 am - Link - Report abuse 0At least you are man enough to admit it.
I, on the other hand, after your challenge found plenty of articles that didn't parrot each other.
The main one:
http://www.perfil.com/internacional/Las-venas-abiertas-de-Galeano--20140506-0013.html
Others:
http://www.perfil.com/internacional/Las-venas-abiertas-de-Galeano--20140506-0013.html
http://www.perfil.com/internacional/Las-venas-abiertas-de-Galeano--20140506-0013.html
http://www.perfil.com/internacional/Las-venas-abiertas-de-Galeano--20140506-0013.html
http://www.perfil.com/internacional/Las-venas-abiertas-de-Galeano--20140506-0013.html
http://www.perfil.com/internacional/Las-venas-abiertas-de-Galeano--20140506-0013.html
These in Portuguese:
http://www.perfil.com/internacional/Las-venas-abiertas-de-Galeano--20140506-0013.html
Take your time to read this one, Agência Brasil..... that's the government news agency in case you are unaware. There's a video that won't load on my iPhone so check that out too:
http://www.perfil.com/internacional/Las-venas-abiertas-de-Galeano--20140506-0013.html
And this is quite a nice article:
http://www.perfil.com/internacional/Las-venas-abiertas-de-Galeano--20140506-0013.html
What is probably upsetting you more is that this just isn't news.
But so glad that I could help you find some closure on this upsetting episode in your life.
Anglolatino
May 11th, 2014 - 01:15 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I have something better for you.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CuaeUnbDqn4
There you go, Galeano actually speaking about Las Venas.
Not some parrot news site parroting “news”.
Galeano.
In Spanish.
Enjoy.
Another bastion of the Latin American Left falls on his sword.
May 11th, 2014 - 01:36 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Times they are a' changing, man!
《snigger》
ilsen
May 11th, 2014 - 01:50 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I see denial works for you, and I'm happy for you.
I'm also glad you recognize Galeano for what he is.
A bastion of the Latin American left.
He'll vote for Moreira, according to himself. Pepe is just too soft, it would seem...
Now, back to your bubble, and remember to repeat your delusions over and over again. One day you'll convince eachother of what your already think you know...
Oh Hi Stevie, didn't notice you lurking about there.
May 11th, 2014 - 04:08 pm - Link - Report abuse 0No, I was recognising him for what he WAS....
I am glad to see he has recanted and believe he should be forgiven.
BTW
Have you found the ACTUAL NUMBERS of your fantasy recount of the Venezuelan elections. Come on boy, I have given you enough time now.
And don't try and fob me off with some crap about electronic voting or some government body saying they didn't need one.
You said that there was a recount and called me a liar. Well I am still waiting.
Like all Latin American lefties the failure is in the delivery. .......
ilsen, you always wish to talk about things happening in your head. Like Galeano saying this and that, Venezuela doing this or that.
May 11th, 2014 - 04:21 pm - Link - Report abuse 0In my head, it's like you telling me unicorns exists and wanting me to prove the opposite.
Your claims, old man. Prove them yourself.
Think already posted some 5 links on the Venezuelan recount, making you a liar.
I posted a link with Galeano saying Las Venas was merely a first chapter of a lifelong piece, making you a fool.
Now you are posting gibberish, making you a masochist...
But you never posted the actual numbers or show that there was a recount. Absolutely no-one supported you on this.
May 11th, 2014 - 05:52 pm - Link - Report abuse 0because it didn't happen, did it?
FailureToDeliver@LeftieStevieSafelyInEurope.com
ilsen, I don't seek your support.
May 11th, 2014 - 06:00 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I don't expect your support.
I don't care what you support.
Im only here to expose your lies.
Now, f you want to hit your head against the same wall again. Feel free.
I'll re-post Think's link in a few posts (you never read them, did you?).
Just giving you time to do proper damage to that wall.
I'm good like that...
Resorting once more to name calling when you have no sound argument, hunh . . . Well, Chris, you HAVE taught me one important lesson. “Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes [my] time and annoys the pig.” Thanks awfully.
May 11th, 2014 - 07:12 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Fbear, dear, your time was already wasted long before you met me.
May 11th, 2014 - 07:55 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I'm merely making it visual.
No need to thank me.
As for ilsen, I'd say although he tries his hardest, I wouldn't compare him to a pig. It introduces an innocent species and adds little constructive to the discussion.
Stevie
May 11th, 2014 - 08:18 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Thanks for that 3 year old YouTube clip.
I prefer my links of what he said this month. It's May 2014 not March 2011.
Obviously his brush with death has changed his attitude.
But I can see you have moved on from the denial stage as you are no unable (as you were at first) deny that he said these things.
You seem to be almost out of the anger stage and soon you'll be bargaining. After a bout of depression (which is the norm for you on here) you'll finally be in acceptance.
And then you'll have worked your way through the 5 stages of grief. So what you are feeling is entirely normal and I accept you for it. But please don't belittle Galeano by ignoring how he feels.
Anglolatino
May 11th, 2014 - 08:37 pm - Link - Report abuse 0If you choose to believe he said what your sensationist news sources say, naming “he told reporters” as source, without specifying what reporters or offering a video link to the statement (which should be out by now), be my guest.
If you choose to believe that Galeano, in three years, went from calling Las Venas a “port of departure, not arrival”, defining his posterior work as “chapters to add” to the book, to call it a “boring and undocumented book”, feel free.
I wont even try to stop you.
But don't make me disprove your delusions. Deal with it yourself.
Where is the recount Stevie? You never proved there was one did you?
May 12th, 2014 - 02:46 am - Link - Report abuse 0Major brawl in Venezuelan congress over the disputed presidential election.
“Opposition leader Henrique Capriles, who says he was the real winner of the April 14 presidential vote, has accused election officials of rejecting his appeal for a full recount on the orders of the ruling Socialist Party.”
http://en.mercopress.com/2013/05/01/major-brawl-in-venezuelan-congress-over-the-disputed-presidential-election
Also
http://en.mercopress.com/2013/05/01/major-brawl-in-venezuelan-congress-over-the-disputed-presidential-election
In nationally televised remarks, Venezuelan Chief Justice Luisa Estella Morales said Venezuela's 1999 constitution eliminated manual recounts in favor of a “system audit.”
“In Venezuela the electoral system is completely automated. Therefore, a manual count does not exist. Anyone who thought that could really happen has been deceived,” she said.
“The majority of those who are asking for a manual count know it and are clear about it. Elections are not audited ballot by ballot but through the system.”
Her comments came a day after the sounds of clanking pots and pans and bursting fireworks rang out in Caracas as tensions mounted over Venezuela's tight election results.“
You do know who Luisa Estella Morales actually is, don't you Stevie?
A notorious Chavista that rose to power on the back of the Boli-garchs and helped dismantle the legal system in their favour.
She was appointed to the Supreme Tribunal by the National Assembly on December 13, 2004 for a period of 12 years. Lamuño appeared on national television to read the decision of the Venezuelan Supreme Tribunal, ruling that President Hugo Chávez’s inauguration could be postponed. The court also ruled that in the meantime, Chavez’s handpicked vice president, Nicolás Maduro, should run the government.
On December 20, 2012 Morales Lamuño had told the media: ”Given the situation--not the new president, because he is not new, it’s
continue please
May 12th, 2014 - 03:16 am - Link - Report abuse 0ilsen
May 12th, 2014 - 12:04 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I see that you decided to have a go at the wall in style... Great!
In a disfavourabe union between Mercopress truth and ilsen logic, you build your conclusions like I build sand castles.
Neverless, there are a bunch of independent sources that, regardless our views, assures that the Venezuelan elections are the most fair and democratic ones in the entire world.
Furthermore, we already had this discussion, ending with Think educating us both on the Venezuelan events.
I clearly remember thanking him for his input while insisting you would be glad as well, having in mind you were so fervent in our search for answers.
But no, seemingly, you didn't even bother to take the information to you, and chose to let time deal with your failure to present a valid argument.
Alas, we remember, ilsen... Now, before I (re)post Thinks link, take some steps back and, in full force, continue your drivel.
Stevie,
May 12th, 2014 - 01:38 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Are you really maintaining that this news is falsified?
If so, why hasn't Galeano clarified what he said.
Dozens of news sites across the continent have reported his words:
“Eu não tinha a formação necessária. Não estou arrependido de tê-lo escrito, mas foi uma etapa que, para mim, está superada.”
You too should get over it.
Condorito
May 12th, 2014 - 02:25 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Where is the audio link?
All I see is a bunch of news sites having eachother as sources, while the original source, perfil.com, has “reporters were told” as justification.
Show me an audio link and I'll agree with you.
And by the way, why is it we always need to disprove your delusions? Can't you prove them yourselves?
You lot are the ones coming up with the claims. The burden of poof lies on your table.
Vague sources does not qualify. In this era of information, audio proof is crucial. Especially if we are talking about controversial quotes expressed by creators opinions.
Stevie,
May 12th, 2014 - 05:36 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I partially agree with you. There is a lot of disinformation and false reporting out there. I just think that if this were false, Galeano would have made a statement to that effect by now.
Also the “parroting” is being done by some very socialist sites too.
I don't smell a rat in this one.
Condorito
May 12th, 2014 - 08:35 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I am surprised you aren't more critic to the sources than you are in this case.
One would think a statement like the one parroted in these “news sites” would have quite an impact, at least in Uruguayan media, if not in SA media altogether.
I'm sure somebody recorded the interview with Galeano anno 2014, wuoldn't you think?
As I'm sure the audio link would find its way to the public, having in mind Galeano is considered a creator of opinions...
Neverless, as I said, I did expect you to have more source criticism.
At least now I know where the bar is set when presenting ones sources...
I am surprised that this matter has not been reported in the mainstream Uruguayan press, and I somehow doubt whether Hughes-Galeano should have had such a change of heart. Think of the royalties!
May 12th, 2014 - 10:00 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Not that I'm an admirer of his. Whether or not this man admits it, “Open Veins” is indeed a boring, undocumented and, at this stage, very dated book. Still selling quite well, amazingly. A bible for the terrorist left.
@Stevie,
May 12th, 2014 - 10:13 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Anglotino has already listed several sites reporting the story. I heard this news item a few days before it appeared in Mercopress on Radio BioBio, a left leaning radio in Chile.
There aren't always audio sources made available for interviews. For example, a few month Mujica did an interview with El Mercurio which only appeared in the printed medium.
If Galeano did not say what has been reported (which is a possibility) then he would have made a statement by now.
Condorito
May 12th, 2014 - 11:19 pm - Link - Report abuse 0You haven't read his links, have you?
Even his “main” one refers to a response to the original “news”. The man doesn't even know what he posts.
The next two links refers to comments on the “news”, by some unknown bloggers.
The Chilean “el Cuidadano” refers to “según entrevistas” without naming whom he talked to.
La Capital names no sources, but merely states he said it.
Here, let me help you with the proper main one, at least the one he claims to be the main one (a bit strange as the book fair was in Brasil, not Argentina...)
http://www.perfil.com/politica/Eduardo-Galeano-No-volveria-a-leer-Las-venas-abiertas-de-America-Latina--20140501-0022.html
Let's check the source... Ah yes, he said it on the book fair...
Now, a lot of “news” sites saying he said it on the book fair.
None of them was there though, as not one of them claims to have had a reporter on the book fair.
Question is then, where are those people Galeano did speak to? It's reasonable to think they should have the story out in first person view long before the ones claiming “he said it on the book fair”.
You think what you want Condorito, convenience is sometimes... convenient.
Galeano is a very good writer with a terrible flaw in his career: this book.
May 13th, 2014 - 01:22 am - Link - Report abuse 0Stevie,
May 13th, 2014 - 01:33 am - Link - Report abuse 0There are dozens of Brazilian news site that published this story at the time (11 April). He made these declarations at a press conference at the book fair.
You can see the full text here:
http://agenciabrasil.ebc.com.br/cultura/noticia/2014-04/galeano-diz-que-realidade-mudou-e-que-nao-releria-seu-livro-mais-conhecido
Or on the site of the department of education that organized the book fair:
http://agenciabrasil.ebc.com.br/cultura/noticia/2014-04/galeano-diz-que-realidade-mudou-e-que-nao-releria-seu-livro-mais-conhecido
The Perfil item you refer to was published almost 3 weeks after the event.
Condorito
May 13th, 2014 - 07:15 am - Link - Report abuse 0I see your “full text” link offers a picture with Galeano in front of a lot of reporters stickng their microphones up his face.
Where is the audio?
3 weeks and still no audio?
Stevie,
May 13th, 2014 - 12:28 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I thought you Uruguayans could manage Portuguese ok, Galeano managed. His commentary is on the site referenced. Here, I will cut and paste for you:
“Eu não seria capaz de ler o livro de novo. Para mim, essa prosa da esquerda tradicional é pesadíssima. Meu físico [atual] não aguentaria. Eu cairia desmaiado”, brincou Galeano, que tem 73 anos, O escritor disse que, em todo o mundo, experiências de partidos políticos de esquerda no poder “às vezes deram certo, às vezes não, mas muitas vezes foram demolidas como castigo por estarem certas, o que deu margem a golpes de Estado, ditaduras militares e períodos prolongados de terror, com sacrifícios humanos e crimes horrorosos cometidos em nome da paz social e do progresso”.
“A realidade mudou muito. Eu mudei muito. Meus espaços de penetração na realidade cresceram tanto fora, quanto dentro de mim. Dentro de mim, eles cresceram na medida em que eu ia escrevendo novos livros, me redescobrindo, vendo que a realidade não é só aquela em que eu acreditava”
“A realidade é muito mais complexa justamente porque a condição humana é diversa. Alguns setores políticos próximos a mim achavam que tal diversidade era uma heresia. Ainda hoje há sobreviventes dessa espécie que acham que toda a diversidade é uma ameaça. Por sorte, não é. Ou seria justa a exigência do sistema dominante de poder que, em escala mundial, nos obriga a uma eleição muito restrita, ridiculamente mesquinha, e nos convida a elegermos como preferimos morrer: de fome ou de aborrecimento”
There is no audio release. Why should there be? Is nothing printed valid unless accompanied by audio? Even if there were an audio release you would claim it as false.
It's not my Portuguese that fails, Condorito.
May 13th, 2014 - 01:18 pm - Link - Report abuse 0It's your affirmation that the expressed words comes from Galeano's mouth.
Lot of microphones on the site, I'm sure there is an audio release affirming your position.
Until then, keep fishing...
Stevie,
May 13th, 2014 - 06:20 pm - Link - Report abuse 0No fishing and no bait required. They already got you hooked.
It's ok, I'm sure the official news site of the federal district of Brasilia has good reason to fabricate this story. Paranoid much.
It it was a fabricated story, Galeano himself would correct it. He speaks portuguese and is a very well informed man, who is always in touch with brazilian left-wing writers and constantly visit the country.
May 13th, 2014 - 06:33 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“It it was a fabricated story, Galeano himself would correct it”
May 13th, 2014 - 10:21 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Exactly. A sane person would arrive at that conclusion.
Why is there nothing about the subject in the Uruguayan press?
May 13th, 2014 - 11:36 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Aaaah! The slow, tortuous death of the Left in Latin America.
May 14th, 2014 - 01:32 am - Link - Report abuse 0Por Fin!
I would take pleasure in this but I see too many that I care for that are suffering.
Hopefully this will be over soon and these Societies can move forward to a better future.
They have suffered enough.
Galeano doesn't read your alternative news, and no major news site has had this as “news”.
May 14th, 2014 - 09:06 am - Link - Report abuse 0Keep fishing.
Stevie,
May 14th, 2014 - 09:49 am - Link - Report abuse 0just give the great man a phone call,
with Skype to validate who you talk to.
Simples.
Geoff
May 14th, 2014 - 09:57 am - Link - Report abuse 0That makes no sense!
I'm not the one in doubt....
“I'm not the one in doubt....”
May 14th, 2014 - 12:38 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Oh yes you are.
Keep fishing Stevie.
Condorito
May 14th, 2014 - 01:17 pm - Link - Report abuse 0You are the one that is dependant of and sitisfied with some unknown news site and subsequent parrots in order to prove your point...
I prefer penguins to parrots.
May 14th, 2014 - 07:22 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Just for the record.
Hmm the Empresa Brasil de Comunicação is now an “unknown news site”.
May 14th, 2014 - 11:56 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Good to know for future reference that government owned media can't be trusted in South America.
That's a government owned company, Anglolatino. Means it's non-profit. Has nothing to do with Dilma and her government, nor does it follow any other policy than to appease to its readers for a budgetted amount of cash.
May 15th, 2014 - 12:16 am - Link - Report abuse 0They parrot too, as they don't mention any sources other than “he said in Brasilia”.
They even have a video on the event where Galeano says nothing of the sort.
There is also a 15 min video on the event on he net where Galeano says nothing of the sort either.
Keep fishing, Anglolatino.
Or go hungry...
Authors have, through history, reversed their position on their tract or polemic.
May 15th, 2014 - 12:43 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Galiano is just the latest in a long line of politically inspired individuals that change their position because of their experience of life subsequent to publication.
My Brasilian ex-partner changed from a 'freedom fighter' (distinctly of the Left), to a distinctly Right of Centre powerful critic of PT/Lula.
You will experience the same Damascene Transition as you accumulate years, Stevie.
The problem is that 'The Open Veins ..' Bible of Galeano has become a foundation of belief for the Bolivarian Left.
Thus Galeano's recantation totters structures across South America.
It is that important.
@80
May 15th, 2014 - 03:13 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Some very good points, well made.
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