Eduardo Galeano, born on September 3rd in 1940, was a Uruguayan journalist and author known for, among other texts, his work “Open Veins of Latin America”, which the editors of Monthly Review Press called “perhaps the finest description of the primary accumulation of capital since Marx”.

Galeano began his career as a political cartoonist and journalist - at fourteen, he was contributing political cartoons to the socialist newspaper “El Sol”. At 20, he was the managing director of “Marcha”, a storied weekly in Uruguay.

Some of his high profile work as a journalist includes an interview with Juan Perón, a laudatory profile of Che Guevara, and a portrait of Pu Yi, the last emperor of China, who had just completed his Maoist re-education in a nondescript building on the outskirts of Beijing.

Galeano is perhaps best known for his book “Open Veins of Latin America”, which details how, through five centuries of plunder by European conquistadors and American corporations, the region’s abundant natural resources had been extracted to enrich a few local elites and many foreign interests.

The editors of Monthly Review Press, which published the U.S. edition, described the book as “perhaps the finest description of the primary accumulation of capital since Marx.” President Hugo Chávez gave a Spanish-language copy of Open Veins to President Barack Obama on his first diplomatic visit to the region.

“The human murder by poverty in Latin America is secret: every year, without making a sound, three Hiroshima bombs explode over communities that have become accustomed to suffering with clenched teeth.”

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  • GalaxyBrain [they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
    7·
    2 months ago

    Delta having come out and my lack of ability or desire to play it but still being curious about it has led to my YouTube wanting me to watch Kojima stuff, it gave me this, and it turned out I did watch it:

    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RATIzHFie_Q&pp=

    Which partially sums up my feelings on the guy at this point. He’s a guy who really likes American movies with Japanese subtitles, so he was getting a very different experience from the dialogue than someone who speaks English hearing it, especially cause translations were a lot lazier way back. He isn’t the visionary he he’s himself as but people dont just climb up on pedestals themselves either, they’re put there. His work seems smart cause video games are really really really fucking dumb

    • Cimbazarov [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
      5·
      2 months ago

      I find the ideas in mgs2 quite prescient, especially for the time it came out at and the way it subverted mgs1 as a sequel seemed original. But idk, im not sure how much of that is attributable to Kojima

      • GalaxyBrain [they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
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        2 months ago

        Mgs2 was where he was most on the ball and still wasnt entirely up his own ass. Seems more like he felt it was his 15 minutes and he should use it at the time and then it kept going. Mgs2 had an entire other release documenting the behind the scenes. It was his empire strikes back to parallel Lucas, where 3 was a better recieved return of the jedi but still kinda conceived in the same vein. It pulled it off better but it was a clear attempt by Kojima to hold the franchise in the mainstream at the expense of artistic pretentions and is the first step in his decline as a creator while still being really good. Mgs3 is arguably the peak where return of the jedi is a more notable slip but I still think its an apt comparison. I still love mgs1 and 2 and 3 but that’s where the gameplay angle starts overtaking the story angle in my estimation.