The human murder by poverty in Latin America is secret: every year, without making a sound, three Hiroshima bombs explod — Eduardo Galeano, Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent
The human murder by poverty in Latin America is secret: every year, without making a sound, three Hiroshima bombs explod — Eduardo Galeano, Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent
The human murder by poverty in Latin America is secret: every year, without making a sound, three Hiroshima bombs explod — Eduardo Galeano, Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent
The human murder by poverty in Latin America is secret: every year, without making a sound, three Hiroshima bombs explod — Eduardo Galeano, Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent
The human murder by poverty in Latin America is secret: every year, without making a sound, three Hiroshima bombs explod — Eduardo Galeano, Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent
The human murder by poverty in Latin America is secret: every year, without making a sound, three Hiroshima bombs explod — Eduardo Galeano, Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent
The human murder by poverty in Latin America is secret: every year, without making a sound, three Hiroshima bombs explod — Eduardo Galeano, Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent
The human murder by poverty in Latin America is secret: every year, without making a sound, three Hiroshima bombs explod — Eduardo Galeano, Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent
The human murder by poverty in Latin America is secret: every year, without making a sound, three Hiroshima bombs explod — Eduardo Galeano, Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent
The human murder by poverty in Latin America is secret: every year, without making a sound, three Hiroshima bombs explod — Eduardo Galeano, Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent
The human murder by poverty in Latin America is secret: every year, without making a sound, three Hiroshima bombs explod — Eduardo Galeano, Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent
The human murder by poverty in Latin America is secret: every year, without making a sound, three Hiroshima bombs explod — Eduardo Galeano, Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent
The human murder by poverty in Latin America is secret: every year, without making a sound, three Hiroshima bombs explod — Eduardo Galeano, Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent
The human murder by poverty in Latin America is secret: every year, without making a sound, three Hiroshima bombs explod — Eduardo Galeano, Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent
The human murder by poverty in Latin America is secret: every year, without making a sound, three Hiroshima bombs explod — Eduardo Galeano, Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent
The human murder by poverty in Latin America is secret: every year, without making a sound, three Hiroshima bombs explod — Eduardo Galeano, Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent
The human murder by poverty in Latin America is secret: every year, without making a sound, three Hiroshima bombs explod — Eduardo Galeano, Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent
The human murder by poverty in Latin America is secret: every year, without making a sound, three Hiroshima bombs explod — Eduardo Galeano, Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent
The human murder by poverty in Latin America is secret: every year, without making a sound, three Hiroshima bombs explod — Eduardo Galeano, Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent
The human murder by poverty in Latin America is secret: every year, without making a sound, three Hiroshima bombs explod — Eduardo Galeano, Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent
The human murder by poverty in Latin America is secret: every year, without making a sound, three Hiroshima bombs explod — Eduardo Galeano, Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent
The human murder by poverty in Latin America is secret: every year, without making a sound, three Hiroshima bombs explod — Eduardo Galeano, Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent
The human murder by poverty in Latin America is secret: every year, without making a sound, three Hiroshima bombs explod — Eduardo Galeano, Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent
The human murder by poverty in Latin America is secret: every year, without making a sound, three Hiroshima bombs explod — Eduardo Galeano, Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent
The human murder by poverty in Latin America is secret: every year, without making a sound, three Hiroshima bombs explod — Eduardo Galeano, Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent
The human murder by poverty in Latin America is secret: every year, without making a sound, three Hiroshima bombs explod — Eduardo Galeano, Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent
The human murder by poverty in Latin America is secret: every year, without making a sound, three Hiroshima bombs explod — Eduardo Galeano, Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent
The human murder by poverty in Latin America is secret: every year, without making a sound, three Hiroshima bombs explod — Eduardo Galeano, Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent
The human murder by poverty in Latin America is secret: every year, without making a sound, three Hiroshima bombs explod — Eduardo Galeano, Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent
The human murder by poverty in Latin America is secret: every year, without making a sound, three Hiroshima bombs explod — Eduardo Galeano, Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent
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The human murder by poverty in Latin America is secret: every year, without making a sound, three Hiroshima bombs explode over communities that have become accustomed to suffering with clenched teeth.

— Eduardo Galeano, Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent
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