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two opening sentences: “The division of labor among nations is that some specialize in winning and others in losing. Our part of the world, known today as Latin America, was precocious: it has specialized in losing ever since those remote times when Renaissance Europeans ventured across the ocean and buried their teeth in the throats of the Indian civilizations.”
— Jan 03, 2026 11:42AM
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Author has a bizarre combination perspectives. He has compassion for the exterminated, enslaved, and oppressed Indigenous peoples of Latin America and tells their story; he also frequently refers to not-yet-exploited deep Amazonia/montane tribes as “barbarous”, “savage”, and having “no organized civilization”.
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“While metals flowed unceasingly from Latin American mines, equally unceasing were the orders from the Spanish Court granting paper protection and dignity to the Indians whose killing labor sustained the kingdom. The fiction of legality protected the Indian; the reality of exploitation drained the blood from his body.”
— Jan 14, 2026 07:17AM
