"I wrote Las veins to disseminate other people's ideas and my own experiences that perhaps help a little, in its realistic measure, to clear up the questions that have always haunted us: is Latin America a region of the world condemned to humiliation and poverty? Condemned by whom? Guilt of God, fault of nature? Is not misfortune a product of history, made by men and that by men can therefore be undone? This book was written with the intention of disclose certain facts that the official story, the story told by the victors, hides or lies. I know that it could have been sacrilegious that this dissemination manual spoke of political economy in the style of a romance or pirate novel. I believe that there is no vanity in the joy of verifying, after time, that Las veins has not been a silent book. "

Eduardo Galeano

This 50th anniversary edition of Las venas, enriched with the great Tute vignettes, is the confirmation of the power of this book that, over the years, has crossed generations and has established itself as an initiatory reading to enter the convulsed world of Latin American history and politics.