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

“It is much more profitable to consume coffee than to produce it.”

“Each product has come to embody the fate of countries, regions, and peoples; and mineral-producing communities have, of course, traveled the same melancholy road. The more a product is desired by the world market, the greater the misery it brings to the Latin American peoples whose sacrifice creates it.”