1492 Discovery and Subjugation – Eduardo Galeano on Colonization

„In 1492, the natives discovered they were indians, discovered they lived in America, discovered they were naked, discovered that the Sin existed, discovered they owed allegiance to a King and Kingdom from another world and a God from another sky, and that this God had invented the guilty and the dress, and had sent to be burnt alive who worships the Sun the Moon the Earth and the Rain that wets it.“

Eduardo GaleanoEduardo Galeano's ironic critique of colonization: How 1492 describes the subjugation of indigenous peoples through European conquest and religious conversion.
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Eduardo Galeano was a Uruguayan writer and journalist known for his socially critical works.

Galeano's ironic perspective on the colonization of the Americas, critiquing the cultural and religious subjugation of indigenous peoples through European conquest.


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Eduardo Galeano (1940–2015) was a prominent Uruguayan writer and journalist. He gained fame for his innovative and critical literature dealing with political and social issues of Latin America, including his famous work 'Open Veins of Latin America'.

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