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

"We are not in a position to take measures against foreign trade, particularly British, because we are bound to that nation by large debts and would expose ourselves to a rupture which would cause much harm..." The use of debt as an instrument of blackmail is not, as we can see, a recent U.S. invention."

"The rich countries that preach free trade apply stern protectionist policies against the poor countries: they turn everything they touch - including the underdeveloped countries' own production - into gold for themselves and rubbish for others."

The Indians have suffered, and continue to suffer, the curse of their own wealth; that is the drama of all Latin America."

"Nature's very generosity makes them targets of plunder and crime."