《拉丁美洲：被切开的血管》

    Many people bought this book because Hugo Chavez recommended* it to U.S. President Barack Obama.

    Since its U.S. debut in 1973, this book has set a new standard for historical studies of Latin America. It is also an outstanding political economy, social and cultural story of the highest quality, and perhaps the finest description of primitive capital accumulation* since Marx.

    Rather than chronology*, geography, or political successions*, author Eduardo Galeano has organized the various aspects* of Latin American history according to the patterns of five centuries of exploitation*.

    He is concerned with* gold and silver, cacao* and cotton, rubber and coffee, fruit, hides* and wool, petroleum, iron, nickel*, manganese, copper, aluminum ore, nitrates, and tin.

    These are the veins* which he traces through the body of the continent, up to the Rio Grande and throughout the Caribbean, and all the way to their open ends where they empty into the coffers* of wealth in the United States and Europe.

    Weaving fact and imagery into a rich text, Galeano mixes scientific analysis with the feelings of a robbed and suffering people.

    All readers interested in great historical, economic, political, and social writing will find an analytical* achievement, and a powerful narrative that makes history speak, unforgettably.

    Both English and Chinese versions are available at online bookstores such as amazon.com and dangdang.com.(SD-Agencies)