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Before we left, an elderly woman approached the car, and screamed something in a local language.
Carlos translated:
"We will all fight those evil beings who declared themselves our rulers. If they don't disappear, soon again we will close the roads between El Alto and La Paz, and they will have to eat their own excrement. Our people will never again be defeated. Say this wherever you go!"
I said that I will.
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In 1971, the great Uruguayan writer, journalist and poet, Eduardo Galeano, published his book Open Veins of Latin America, which soon became the most important tome for the Latin American left-wing thinkers and revolutionaries.
Inside the book, which was regularly banned all over the continent, Galeano had written about those 500 years of monstrous plunder, deceit and cruelty, committed by the Europeans and the North Americans against the people of South and Central America. Some of the most terrible crimes were committed on the territory which is now Bolivia, particularly in the silver mines of the city of Potosi, which helped to make Europe rich, but whose tens of thousands of people died, while forced to live and work as slaves.
Not long before he passed away, I worked with Eduardo Galeano in his cafe', in the old city of Montevideo.
It was during the heady days of the "Pink Revolutions" wave. We were celebrating our victories, sharing hope for the future.
But at one point, Eduardo paused, and said, simply:
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