MARY DAVIS welcomes a remarkable documentary about the general strike — politically spot on, and featuring accounts from the strikers themselves — that is available for screenings
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Last words from a continental explorer
MICHAL BONCZA recommends the final collection of works by the great Eduardo Galeano
Revelatory: Eduardo Galeano
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Hunter of Stories
by Eduardo Galeano
(Constable £14.99)
IN LATIN America, time is measured before and after Eduardo Galeano’s book Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent.
A literary Pandora’s Box if ever there was one, it's a book that transformed the continent’s self-awareness by tearing down the veil of falsity drawn over its true history by bourgeois apologists.
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