“In our day, this global offensive plays a well-defines role. Its aim is to justify te very unequal income distribution between countries and social elates, to convince the poor that poverty is the result of the children they don't avoid… — Eduardo Hughes Galeano Copy Share Image
“The Revolution is indeed living thorough the hard times of transition and sacrifice. The Cubans themselves have learned that socialism is built with clenched… — Eduardo Hughes Galeano Copy Share Image
“Here," an old sugar worker told me, "the people have a great love for martyrs--but only after they're dead. Before, there's nothing but complaints.” — Eduardo Hughes Galeano Copy Share Image
“Cuba,” he said in his resounding defense plea, “continues to be a producer of raw materials. We exhort sugar to import candy, we export… — Eduardo Hughes Galeano Copy Share Image
“The world,' he revealed, 'is a heap of people, a sea of tiny flames.' Each person shines with his or her own light. No… — Eduardo Hughes Galeano Copy Share Image
“The dreams were off on a trip. Helena went as far as the train station with them. She bade them farewell from the platform,… — Eduardo Hughes Galeano Copy Share Image
“For sailors with a desire for wind, memory is a good port of departure.” — Eduardo Hughes Galeano Copy Share Image
“If thats how it was done, and thats how it had always been done, there had to be a reason” — Eduardo Hughes Galeano Copy Share Image
“Grown on a grand scale, sugar spreads its blight on a grand scale and today unemployment and poverty are these islands' permanent guests.” — Eduardo Hughes Galeano Copy Share Image
“In our day, this global offensive plays a well-defines role. Its aim is to justify te very unequal income distribution between countries and social… — Eduardo Hughes Galeano Copy Share Image
“Latin America is the region of open veins. Everything from the discovery until our times, has always been transmuted into European--or later--United States-- capital,… — Eduardo Hughes Galeano Copy Share Image
“Along the way we have even lost the right to call ourselves Americans, although the Haitians and the Cubans appeared in history as new… — Eduardo Hughes Galeano Copy Share Image
“The Revolution, after discovering that it had confused the knife with the assassin, turned sugar, which had been responsible for underdevelopment, into an instrument… — Eduardo Hughes Galeano Copy Share Image
