GRITtv : Eduardo Galeano the author most recently of Mirrors: Stories of Almost Everyone, published by Nation Books has spent a lifetime reflecting on the lives — political, cultural, and historical — of the people of the Americas. Back in April Venezuela’s president Hugo Chavez gave Barack Obama a copy of Galeano’s book Open Veins of Latin America.
"Impunity is the daughter of oblivion. ... we are afraid of thinking, feeling, remembering ... the owners are the owners of a great factory of fear ... fear of words, fear of memory, fear of the Other one ...
every year chemical pesticides kill three million farmers, every day workplace accidents kill no fewer than ten thousand workers, every minute poverty kills no fewer than ten children ...
to recover human history from the point of view of the invisibles"
