“Hispanic" and "Latino" are terms whose descriptive legitimacy is premised on a startling lack of specificity.
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For example, Open Veins is unobtainable either in my country, Uruguay, or in Chile in Argentina the authorities denounced it on TV and in the press as a corrupter of youth, As Blas de Otero remarked, "They don't let people see what I write because I write what I see.” The student who went from one bookstore to another for a week in Buenos Aires's Calle Corrientes, reading bits of it in each store because he hadn't the money to buy it.Īnd the most favorable reviews came not from any prestigious critic but from the military dictatorships that praised the book by banning it. The woman who fled from Santiago in the days of the Chilean bloodbath with this book wrapped inside her baby's diapers.
The girl who was quietly reading Open Veins to her companion in a bus in Bogotá, and finally stood up and read it aloud to all the passengers. “The most heartening response came not from the book pages in the press but from real incidents in the streets. Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent
Youth, As Blas de Otero remarked, "They don't let people see what I write Open Veins is unobtainable either in my country, Uruguay, or in Chile inĪrgentina the authorities denounced it on TV and in the press as a corrupter of Student who went from one bookstore to another for a week in Buenos Aires'sĬalle Corrientes, reading bits of it in each store because he hadn't the money toĪnd the most favorable reviews came not from any prestigious critic butįrom the military dictatorships that praised the book by banning it. The Chilean bloodbath with this book wrapped inside her baby's diapers. The woman who fled from Santiago in the days of Veins to her companion in a bus in Bogotá, and finally stood up and read itĪloud to all the passengers. “The most heartening response came not from the book pages in the pressīut from real incidents in the streets. For the Palestinians and many others, it has been a catastrophe, as it may sooner or later be for the entire world, with the growing danger of superpower confrontation.” For Israel, this is a moral disaster and will eventually become a physical disaster as well. The effect has been to turn Israel into a militarized state completely dependent on US aid, willing to undertake tasks that few can endure, such as participation in Guatemalan genocide. While there has been internal debate and some fluctuation in US policy, much exaggerated in discussion here, it has been generally true that US support for Israel's militarization and expansion reflected the estimate of its power in the region. Meanwhile, Israel has provided subsidiary services elsewhere, including Latin America, where direct US support for the most murderous regimes has been impeded by Congress. Under the Nixon doctrine, Israel and Iran were to be 'the guardians of the Gulf,' and after the fall of the Shah, Israel's perceived role was enhanced. “Israel's demonstration of its military prowess in 1967 confirmed its status as a 'strategic asset,' as did its moves to prevent Syrian intervention in Jordan in 1970 in support of the PLO.
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