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