Books - The open veins of Latin America

The open veins of Latin America was a book that I really liked and that left me thinking for a long time. This beautiful book was written by Uruguayan Eduardo Galeano and published in 1971. This book, despite being quite long, has no main characters, it is actually a social novel that does not distinguish the people it describes. The book in about 400 pages covers the social, political, economic and cultural history of Latin America. From the brutal conquest and genocide committed against the native peoples to the appropriation of raw materials by foreign nations. As I said before, I really liked it because it is a beautiful, revealing, poetic book, written from and out of awareness of being Latin American. In addition, I read it when I was 15 years old so it became a very dear and remembered reading of my adolescence, an elementary reading to understand the immense and painful history that is written in this continent. I think Eduardo Galeano wrote this book as a novel rather than with the intention of an academic writing, when reading it you can feel that each word is a rhyme.