The Memory of Fire Trilogy: Genesis, Faces and Masks, and Century of the Wind

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by Eduardo Galeano


  1898: Coasts of Cuba This Fruit Is Ready to Fall

  1898: Washington Ten Thousand Lynchings

  1898: San Juan Hill Teddy Roosevelt

  1898: Coasts of Puerto Rico This Fruit Is Falling

  1898: Washington President McKinley Explains That the United States Should Keep the Philippines by Direct Order of God

  1899. New York Mark Twain Proposes Changing the Flag

  1899: Rome Calamity Jane

  1899: Rome The Nascent Empire Flexes Its Muscles

  1899: Saint Louis Far Away

  1899: Rio de Janeiro How to Cure by Killing

  1900: Huanuni Patiño

  1900: Mexico City Posada

  1900: Mexico City Porfirio Díaz

  1900: Mexico City The Flores Magón Brothers

  1900: Merida, Yucatán Henequén

  From the Mexican Corrido of the Twenty-Eighth Battalion

  1900: Tabi The Iron Serpent

  The Prophet

  The Sources

  Index

  Century of the Wind

  Preface

  1900: San José de Gracia The World Goes On

  1900: West Orange, New Jersey Edison

  1900: Montevideo Rodó

  1901: New York This Is America, to the South There’s Nothing

  1901: In All Latin America Processions Greet the Birth of the Century

  1901: Amiens Verne

  1902: Quetzaltenango The Government Decides That Reality Doesn’t Exist

  1902: Guatemala City Estrada Cabrera

  1902: Saint Pierre Only the Condemned Is Saved

  1903: Panama City The Panama Canal

  1903: Panama City Casualties of This War: One Chinese, One Burro,

  1903: La Paz Huilka

  1904: Rio de Janeiro Vaccine

  1905: Montevideo The Automobile,

  1905: Montevideo The Decadent Poets

  1905: Ilopango Miguel at One Week

  1906: Paris Santos Dumont

  1907: Sagua la Grande Lam

  1907: Iquique The Flags of Many Countries

  1907: Rio Batalha Nimuendajú

  1908: Asunción Barrett

  1908: San Andrés de Sotavento The Government Decides That Indians Don’t Exist

  1908: San Andrés de Sotavento Portrait of a Master of Lives and Estates

  1908: Guanape Portrait of Another Master of Lives and Estates

  1908: Mérida, Yucatán Curtain Time and After

  1908: Ciudad Juárez Wanted

  1908: Caracas Castro

  1908: Caracas Dolls

  1909: Paris A Theory of National Impotence

  1909: New York Charlotte

  1909: Managua Inter-American Relations at Work

  1910: Amazon Jungle The People Eaters

  1910: Rio de Janeiro The Black Admiral

  1910: Rio de Janeiro Portrait of Brazil’s Most Expensive Lawyer

  1910: Rio de Janeiro Reality and the Law Seldom Meet

  1910: Mauricio Colony Tolstoy

  1910: Havana The Cinema

  1910: Mexico City The Centennial and Love

  1910: Mexico City The Centennial and Food

  1910: Mexico City The Centennial and Art

  1910: Mexico City The Centennial and the Dictator

  1911: Anenecuilco Zapata

  1911: Mexico City Madero

  1911: The Fields of Chihuahua Pancho Villa

  1911: Machu Picchu The Last Sanctuary of the Incas

  1912: Quito Alfaro

  Sad Verses from the Ecuadoran Songbook

  1912: Cantón Santa Ana Chronicle of the Customs of Manabí

  1912: Pajeú de Flores Family Wars

  1912: Daiquirí Daily Life in the Caribbean: An Invasion

  1912: Niquinohomo Daily Life in Central America: Another Invasion

  1912: Mexico City Huerta

  1913: Mexico City An Eighteen-Cent Rope

  1913: Jonacatepec The Hordes Are Not Destroyed

  Zapata and Those Two

  1913: The Plains of Chihuahua The North of Mexico Celebrates War and Fiesta

  1913: Culiacán Bullets

  1913: The Fields of Chihuahua One of These Mornings I Murdered Myself,

  1914: Montevideo Batlle

  1914: San Ignacio Quiroga

  1914: Montevideo Delmira

  1914: Ciudad Jiménez Chronicler of Angry Peoples

  1914: Salt Lake City Songster of Angry Peoples

  1914: Torreón By Rail They March to Battle

  1914: The Fields of Morelos It’s Time to Get Moving and Fight,

  1914: Mexico City Huerta Flees

  1915: Mexico City Power Ungrasped

  1915: Tlaltizapán Agrarian Reform

  1915: El Paso Azuela

  1916: Tlaltizapán Carranza

  1916: Buenos Aires Isadora

  1916: New Orleans Jazz

  1916: Columbus Latin America Invades the United States

  1916: León Darío

  1917: The Fields of Chihuahua and Durango Eagles into Hens

  1918: Córdoba Moldy Scholars

  1918: Córdoba “The Pains That Linger Are the Liberties We Lack,” Proclaims the Student Manifesto

  1918: Ilopango Miguel at Thirteen

  1918: The Mountains of Morelos Ravaged Land, Living Land

  1918: Mexico City The New Bourgeoisie is Born Lying

  1919: Cuautla This Man Taught Them That Life Is Not Only Fear of Suffering and Hope for Death

  Ballad of the Death of Zapata

  1919: Hollywood Chaplin

  1919: Hollywood Keaton

  1919: Memphis Thousands of People Flock to the Show,

  1921: Rio de Janeiro Rice Powder

  1921: Rio de Janeiro Pixinguinha

  1921: Rio de Janeiro Brazil’s Fashionable Author

  1922: Toronto This Reprieve

  1922: Leavenworth For Continuing to Believe That All Belongs to All

  1922: The Fields of Patagonia The Worker-Shoot

  1923: Guayas River Crosses Float in the River,

  1923: Acapulco The Function of the Forces of Order in the Democratic Process

  1923: Azángaro Urviola

  1923: Callao Mariátegui

  1923: Buenos Aires Snapshot of a Worker-Hunter

  1923: Tampico Traven

  1923: The Fields of Durango Pancho Villa Reads the Thousand and One Nights,

  1923: Mexico City/Parral The People Donated a Million Dead to the Mexican Revolution

  1924: Mérida, Yucatán More on the Function of the Forces of Order in the Democratic Process

  1924: Mexico City Nationalizing the Walls

  1924: Mexico City Diego Rivera

  1924: Mexico City Orozco

  1924: Mexico City Siqueiros

  The People Are the Hero of Mexican Mural Painting, Says Diego Rivera

  1924: Regla Lenin

  1926: San Albino Sandino

  1926: Puerto Cabezas The Most Admirable Women on Earth

  1926: Juazeiro do Norte Father Cicero

  1926: Juazeiro do Norte By Divine Miracle a Bandit Becomes a Captain

  1926: New York Valentino

  1927: Chicago Louie

  1927: New York Bessie

  1927: Rapallo Pound

  1927: Charlestown “Lovely day,”

  1927: Araraquara Mário de Andrade

  1927: Paris Villa-Lobos

  1927: The Plains of Jalisco Behind a Huge Cross of Sticks

  1927: San Gabriel de Jalisco A Child Looks On

  1927: El Chipote The War of Jaguars and Birds

  1928: San Rafael del Norte Crazy Little Army

  “It Was All Very Brotherly”

  1928: Washington Newsreel

  1928: Managua Profile of Colonial Power

  1928: Mexico City Obregón

  1928: Villahermosa The Priest Eater

  1928: Southern Santa Marta Bananization

  1928: Aracataca The Curse

  1928: Ciénaga Carnage

  1928: Aracatac
a García Márquez

  1928: Bogotá Newsreel

  1929: Mexico City Mella

  1929: Mexico City Tina Modotti

  1929: Mexico City Frida

  1929: Capela Lampião

  1929: Atlantic City The Crime Trust

  1929: Chicago Al Capone

  Al Capone Calls for Defense Against the Communist Danger

  1929: New York Euphoria

  From the Capitalist Manifesto of Henry Ford, Automobile Manufacturer

  1929: New York The Crisis

  1930: La Paz A Touching Adventure of the Prince of Wales Among the Savages

  1930: Buenos Aires Yrigoyen

  1930: Paris Ortiz Echagüe, Journalist, Comments on the Fallen Price of Meat

  1930: Avellaneda The Cow, the Sword, and the Cross

  1930: Castex The Last Rebel Gaucho

  1930: Santo Domingo The Hurricane

  1930: Ilopango Miguel at Twenty-Five

  1930: New York Daily Life in the Crisis

  1930: Achuapa Shrinking the Rainbow

  1931: Bocay The Trumpets Will Sound

  Sandino Writes to One of His Officers: “We won’t be able to walk for all the flowers …”

  1931: Bocay Santos López

  1931: Bocay Tranquilino

  1931: Bocay Little Cabrera

  1931: Hanwell The Winner

  1932: Hollywood The Loser

  1932: Mexico City Eisenstein

  1932: The Roads of Santa Fe The Puppeteer

  1932: Izalco The Right to Vote and Its Painful Consequences

  1932: Soyapango Miguel at Twenty-Six

  1932: Managua Sandino Is Advancing

  1932: San Salvador Miguel at Twenty-Seven

  1933: Managua The First U.S. Military Defeat in Latin America

  1933: Camp Jordán The Chaco War

  Céspedes

  Roa Bastos

  1934: Managua Horror Film: Scenario for Two Actors and a Few Extras

  1934: Managua The Government Decides That Crime Does Not Exist

  1934: San Salvador Miguel at Twenty-Nine

  1935: The Villamontes-Boyuibe Road After Ninety Thousand Deaths

  1935: Maracay Gómez

  1935: Buenos Aires Borges

  1935: Buenos Aires These Infamous Years

  1935: Buenos Aires Discepolín

  1935: Buenos Aires Evita

  1935: Buenos Aires Alfonsina

  1935: Medellín Gardel

  1936: Buenos Aires Patoruzú

  1936: Rio de Janeiro Olga and He

  1936: Madrid The Spanish War

  1936: San Salvador Martínez

  1936: San Salvador: Miguel at Thirty-One

  1936: Guatemala City Ubico

  1936: Trujillo City In the Year Six of the Trujillo Era

  Procedure Against Rain

  Procedure Against Disobedience

  1937: Dajabón Procedure Against the Black Menace

  1937: Washington Newsreel

  1937: Rio de Janeiro Procedure Against the Red Menace

  1937: Cariri Valley The Crime of Community

  1937: Rio de Janeiro Monteiro Lobato

  1937: Madrid Hemingway

  1937: Mexico City The Bolero

  1937: Mexico City Cantinflas

  1937: Mexico City Cárdenas

  1938: Anenecuilco Nicolás, Son of Zapata

  1938: Mexico City The Nationalization of Oil

  1938: Mexico City Showdown

  1938: Coyoacán Trotsky

  1938: The Hinterland The Cangaceiros

  1938: Angico The Cangaceiro Hunters

  1939: São Salvador de Bahia The Women of the Gods

  Exú

  María Padilha

  1939: Rio de Janeiro The Samba

  1939: Rio de Janeiro The Scoundrel

  1939: Rio de Janeiro Cartola

  1939: Montserrat Vallejo

  1939: Washington Roosevelt

  1939: Washington In the Year Nine of the Trujillo Era

  1939: Washington Somoza

  1939: New York Superman

  1941: New York Portrait of an Opinion Maker

  1942: New York The Red Cross Doesn’t Accept Black Blood

  1942: Oxford, Mississippi Faulkner

  1942: Hollywood Brecht

  1942: Hollywood The Good Neighbors to the South

  1942: María Barzola Pampa A Latin American Method for Reducing Production Costs

  1943: Sans-Souci Carpentier

  1943: Port-au-Prince Hands That Don’t Lie

  1943: Mount Rouis A Little Grain of Salt

  1944: New York Learning to See

  1945: The Guatemala–El Salvador Border Miguel at Forty

  1945: Hiroshima and Nagasaki A Sun of Fire,

  1945: Princeton Einstein

  1945: Buenos Aires Perón

  1945: The Fields of Tucumán The Familiar

  A Wake for a Little Angel

  1945: The Fields of Tucumán Yupanqui

  1946: La Paz The Rosca

  1946: La Paz Villarroel

  1946: Hollywood Carmen Miranda

  1948: Bogotá On the Eve

  1948: Bogotá Gaitán

  1948: Bogotá The Bogotazo

  1948: Bogotá Flames

  1948: Bogotá Ashes

  1948: Upar Valley The Vallenato

  1948: Wroclaw Picasso

  1948: Somewhere in Chile Neruda

  1948: San José de Costa Rica Figueres

  1949: Washington The Chinese Revolution

  1949: Havana Radio Theater

  1950: Rio de Janeiro Obdulio

  1950: Hollywood Rita

  1950: Hollywood Marilyn

  1951: Mexico City Buñuel

  1952: San Fernando Hill Sick unto Death

  1952: La Paz El Illimani

  1952: La Paz Drum of the People

  A Woman of the Bolivian Mines Gives the Recipe for a Homemade Bomb

  1952: Cochabamba Cries of Mockery and Grievance

  Shameless Verses Sung by Indian Women of Cochabamba to Jesus Christ

  1952: Buenos Aires The Argentine People Feel Naked Without Her

  1952: On the High Seas Wanted: Charlie the Tramp

  1952: London An Admirable Ghost

  1953: Washington Newsreel

  1953: Washington The Witch Hunt

  1953: Washington Portrait of a Witch Hunter

  1953: Seattle Robeson

  1953: Santiago de Cuba Fidel

  1953: Santiago de Cuba The Accused Turns Prosecutor and Announces: “History Will Absolve Me”

  1953: Boston United Fruit

  1953: Guatemala City Arbenz

  1953: San Salvador Dictator Wanted

  1954: Washington The Deciding Machine, Piece by Piece

  1954: Boston The Lie Machine, Piece by Piece

  1954: Guatemala City The Reconquest of Guatemala

  1954: Mazatenango Miguel at Forty-Nine

  1954: Guatemala City Newsreel

  1954: Rio de Janeiro Getulio

  1955: Medellín Nostalgia

  1955: Asunción Withdrawal Symptoms

  1955: Guatemala City One Year after the Reconquest of Guatemala,

  1956: Buenos Aires The Government Decides That Peronism Doesn’t Exist

  1956: León Son of Somoza

  1956: Santo Domingo In the Year Twenty-Six of the Trujillo Era

  1956: Havana Newsreel

  1956: At the Foot of the Sierra Maestro Twelve Lunatics

  1957: Benidorm Marked Cards

  1957: Majagual Colombia’s Sainted Egg

  1957: Sucre Saint Lucío

  1957: The Sinú River Banks Saint Domingo Vidal

  1957: Pino del Agua Crucito

  1957: El Uvero Almeida

  1957: Santiago de Cuba Portrait of an Imperial Ambassador

  1957: El Hombrito Che

  Old Chana, Campesina of the Sierra Maestra, Remembers:

  1958: Stockholm Pelé

  1958: Stockholm Garrincha

  1958
: Sierra Maestra The Revolution Is an Unstoppable Centipede

  1958: Yaguajay Camilo

  1959: Havana Cuba Wakes Up Without Batista

  The Rumba

  1959: Havana Portrait of a Caribbean Casanova

  1959: Havana “We have only won the right to begin,”

  1960: Brasília A City, or Delirium in the Midst of Nothing

  1960: Rio de Janeiro Niemeyer

  1960: Rio de Janeiro Guimaraes Rosa

  1960: Artemisa Thousands and Thousands of Machetes

  1961: Santo Domingo In the Year Thirty-One of the Trujillo Era

  1961: Santo Domingo Defunctisimo

  1961: Bay of Pigs Against the Wind,

  1961: Playa Girón The Second U.S. Military Defeat in Latin America

  1961: Havana Portrait of the Past

  1961: Washington Who Invaded Cuba? A Dialogue in the U.S. Senate

  1961: Havana María de la Cruz

  1961: Punta del Este Latrine Diplomacy

  1961: Escuinapa The Tale Spinner

  1961: São Salvador de Bahia Amado

  1962: Cosalá One Plus One Is One

  1962: Villa de Jesús María One Plus One Is All

  1963: Bayamo Hurricane Flora

  1963: Havana Everyone a Jack-of-All-Trades

  1963: Havana Portrait of the Bureaucrat

  1963: Havana Bola de Nieve

  1963: Río Coco On His Shoulders He Carries the Embrace of Sandino,

  1963: San Salvador Miguel at Fifty-Eight

  1963: Dallas The Government Decides That Truth Doesn’t Exist

  1963: Santo Domingo A Chronicle of Latin American Customs

  1964: Panama Twenty-Three Boys Are Pumped Full of Lead

  1964: Rio de Janeiro “There are dark clouds,”

  1964: Juiz de Fora The Reconquest of Brazil

  1964: La Paz Without Shame or Glory,

  1964: North of Potosí With Savage Fury

  Hats

  1965: San Juan, Puerto Rico Bosch

  1965: Santo Domingo Caamaño

  1965: Santo Domingo The Invasion

  1965: Santo Domingo One Hundred Thirty-Two Nights

  1965: Havana This Multiplier of Revolutions,

  Che Guevara Bids Farewell to His Parents

  1966: Patiocemento “We know that hunger is mortal,”

  1967: Llallagua The Feast of San Juan

  1967: Catavi The Day After

  1967: Catavi Domitila

  The Interrogation of Domitila

  1967: Catavi The God in the Stone

  1967: On the Ñancahuazú River Banks Seventeen Men March to Annihilation

  1967: Yuro Ravine The Fall of Che

  1967: Higueras Bells Toll for Him

  1967: La Paz Portrait of a Supermacho

  1967: Estoril Society Notes

  1967: Houston Ali

  1968: Memphis Portrait of a Dangerous Man

  1968: San Jose, California The Chicanos

  1968: San Juan, Puerto Rico Albizu

  1968: Mexico City The Students

  “There was much, much blood,” says the mother of a student,

 

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