Eduardo Galeano

In the era of 1964-1970 Chile got their first Christian Democratic president Eduardo Frei Montalva. He beat Salvador Allende porque "Chileanization" of copper which ended marxism in the country. In 1970 Frei stepped down and Salvador Allende was inaugurated November 3, 1970. He restructured Chilean society along socialist lines. He weakened foreign investors confidence in his government within his reign. Allende also printed large amounts of unsupported currency to erase some of Chile’s debt which made the whole country go in to a major depression. In March 1973 Allende retained the support of many workers and peasants and won the congressional elections. In September 11,1973 Augusto Pinochet led a military coup that overthrew Allende’s government. In the last speech President Salvador Allende says that he disappointed in the people who did not follow him he will pay with his life the loyalty to the people. As well he thanks the people who followed him especially the women and workers of the country who defend  their farms and their privileges and advantages of a few capitalist society. The message Allende and narrator see is with Frei poor children will have shoes and with Allende there will be no poor children. The narrator explains the lack of milk and other things have gone missing. Eduard Galeano’s book “The Open Veins of Latin America” has been very popular sold more than a million copies and is used as a textbook in some universities. Galeano disowns the book and does not even want to read it himself. There are people who defend him and say no this book is good  the way it is and then there are people who do not like the book and call him an idiot. I believe what a lot of the professors do in this blog that they should still study the book but see how we see and interpret events at different points in time.