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"Open Veins’ tried to be a book of political economy, but I didn’t yet have the necessary training or preparation"

— Eduardo Galeano

January 1, 1970

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Attributed in article (2014). Later in article: "Precisely why Mr. Galeano chose to renounce his book now is unclear. Through his American agent, Susan Bergholz, he declined to elaborate. She said he had gradually grown “horrified by the prose and the phraseology” of “Open Veins.” "

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Attributed in article (2014). Later in article: "Precisely why Mr. Galeano chose to renounce his book now is unclear. Through his American agent, Susan Bergholz, he declined to elaborate. She said he had gradually grown “horrified by the prose and the phraseology” of “Open Veins.” "