natalie zander’s Reviews > Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent > Status Update

“The regions now most underdeveloped and poverty-stricken are those which … had the closest links with the metropolis and had enjoyed periods of boom. Having once been the biggest producers of goods exported to Europe, or later to the United States, and the richest sources of capital, they were abandoned by the metropolis when for this or that reason business sagged.”