![]() ![]() ![]() When I read the first articles about the author’s recent statements in Brazil, I had a few words with Galeano himself about them. Clearly, too much was being read into all of this. ![]() It seemed that we were witnessing, along with the corresponding euphoria of conservatives, the suicide of radical Latin American literary criticism. For some days and weeks, gloomy articles and commentaries were popping up. Similar examples abound in several languages, above all in the Spanish-language press. In a recent Washington Post article entitled “Latin Americans Are Embracing Globalization and Their Former Colonial Masters,” written by a political science professor from the University of Colorado, the author begins with the following sentence: “Uruguayan writer Eduardo Galeano recently renounced his 1971 classic, Open Veins of Latin America, one of a few books admitted into the Latin American left’s pantheon.” Some days before, the New York Times had fired off an article entitled “Eduardo Galeano Disavows His Book The Open Veins,” etc. ![]()
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