“The world,' he revealed, 'is a heap of people, a sea of tiny flames.' Each person shines with his or her own light. No two flames are alike. There are big flames and little flames, flames of every colour. Some… — 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“For sailors with a desire for wind, memory is a good port of departure.” — Eduardo Hughes Galeano Copy Share
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
