OPEN VEINS OF LATIN AMERICA

History

Background

Author

Eduardo Galeano

Journalist

Writer

Poet

in 1971

An analysis of the impact that European settlement, imperialism, and slavery have had in Latin America.

Cold War

Dictatorships were ruling in the majority of Latin American countries.

Historical context

Process of Militarization

repression

violence

a massive effort to " destroy, torture, and make disappear" the ideological left from Latin American politics.

Latin America Military dictatorships.

The Gods return with secret weapons and they crave gold like hungry swine.

Crow of Castilen

The Treaty of Tordesillas

Martim Affonso de Sousa

founded the first Portuguese communities in Brazil

Hernan Cortes

Cuba toward Mexico

Tenochtitlan - Aztec Capital

Veracruz Indians

Pedro de Alvarado

Central America

Guatemala and Salvador

Modern Age

gun powder

paper

glass

printing

The silver cycle : The splendor of Potosi

Inca Poeple

It was one of the world's biggest and richest cities

Lust for Gold, Lust for Silver

The discovery Of America ( A great new land )

Christopher Columbus, Portuguese, Norwegians, Ferdinand of Aragon and Isabella of Castile

15th Century

Mediterranean Sea

America lacked of name

Norwegians

Columbus

The beaches of the Bahamas on October 12th at the same year.

Cuba & Haiti

Española

Coast of Venezuela

Zipango - Japan

Gold,pearls,precious stones,spices.

first navigator to arrive to America´s land.

Era Of reconquest

The decline of Muslim rule in the Iberian Peninsula.

The weaking of Muslin control

Christian war vs Islam.

Isabella Queen

The patroness of the holy acquisition

The rise of Spanish and Portuguese kingdoms,

Expeditions

Hernan Cortes

In the conquest of Mexico

Montezumas's Aztec treasure

Columbus

Caribbean Seas

The Antilles

Amerigo Vespucci

Brazilian Coast

The Renaissance

Capitalist mercantilism.

Christian Faith

America