1968: Mexico City Revueltas
1968: Banks of the River Yaqui The Mexican Revolution Isn’t There Anymore
1968: Mexico City Rulfo
1969: Lima Arguedas
1969: Sea of Tranquillity The Discovery of the Earth
1969: Bogotá The Urchins
1969: Any City Someone
1969: Rio de Janeiro Expulsion from the Slums
1969: Baixo Grande A Castle of Garbage
1969: Arque Pass The Last Stunt of Aviator Barrientos
1960: San Salvador and Tegucigalpa Two Turbulent Soccer Matches
1969: San Salvador and Tegucigalpa The Soccer War
1969: Port-au-Prince A Law Condemns to Death Anyone Who Says or Writes Red Words in Haiti
1970: Montevideo Portrait of a Torture Trainer
1970: Managua Rugama
1970: Santiago de Chile Landscape after Elections
1971: Santiago de Chile Donald Duck
1971: Santiago de Chile “Shoot at Fidel,”
1972: Managua Nicaragua, Inc.
1972: Managua Somoza’s Other Son
Tachito Somoza’s Pearl of Wisdom
1972: Santiago de Chile Chile Trying to Be Born
1972: Santiago de Chile Portrait of a Multinational Company
1973: Santiago de Chile The Trap
1973: Santiago de Chile Allende
1973: Santiago de Chile Great Avenues Will Open Up, Announces Salvador Allende in His Final Message
1973: Santiago de Chile The Reconquest of Chile
1973: Santiago de Chile The Home of Allende
1973: Santiago de Chile The Home of Neruda
1973: Miami Sacred Consumerism Against the Dragon of Communism
1973: Recife Eulogy of Humiliation
1974: Brasília Ten Years after the Reconquest of Brazil
1974: Rio de Janeiro Chico
1974: Guatemala City Twenty Years after the Reconquest of Guatemala
1974: Forests of Guatemala The Quetzal
1974: Ixcán A Political Education Class in Guatemala
1974: Yoro Rain
1975: San Salvador Miguel at Seventy
1975: San Salvador Roque
1975: Amazon River Tropical Landscape
1975: Amazon River This Is the Father of All Rivers,
1975: Ribeirão Bonito A Day of Justice
1975: Huayanay Another Day of Justice
1975: Cuzco Condori Measures Time by Bread
1975: Lima Velasco
1975: Lima The Altarpieces of Huamanga
The Molas of San Blas
The Bark Paintings of the Balsas River
The Arpilleras of Santiago
The Little Devils of Ocumicho
On Private Property and the Right of Creation
1975: Cabimas Vargas
1975: Salta Happy Colors of Change
1975: Buenos Aires Against the Children of Evita and Marx
1976: Madrid Onetti
1976: San José A Country Stripped of Words
A Uruguayan Political Prisoner, Mauricio Rosencof, Says His Piece
1976: Liberty Forbidden Birds
1976: Montevideo Seventy-Five Methods of Torture,
1976: Montevideo “One Must Obey,” the New Official Texts Teach Uruguayan Students
1976: Montevideo The Head Shrinkers
1976: La Perla The Third World War
1976: Buenos Aires The Choice
1976: La Plata Bent over the Ruins, a Woman Looks
1976: Forest of Zinica Carlos
1977: Managua Tomás
1977: Solentiname Archipelago Cardenal
Omar Cabezas Tells of the Mountain’s Mourning for the Death of a Guerrilla in Nicaragua
1977: Brasília Scissors
1977: Buenos Aires Walsh
1977: Río Cuarto The Burned Books of Walsh and Other Authors Are Declared Nonexistent
1977: Buenos Aires The Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo,
1977: Buenos Aires Alicia Moreau
1977: Buenos Aires Portrait of a Croupier
1977: Caracas The Exodus of the Intruders
María Laonza
José Gregorio
1977: Graceland Elvis
1978: San Salvador Romero
1978: La Paz Five Women
1978: Managua “The Pigsty”
Tachito Somoza’s Pearl of Wisdom
1978: Panama City: Torrijos
1979: Madrid Intruders Disturb the Quiet Ingestion of the Body of God
1979: New York Banker Rockefeller Congratulates Dictator Videla
1979: Siuna Portrait of a Nicaraguan Worker
1979: In All Nicaragua The Earth Buckles
1979: In All Nicaragua Get It Together, Everyone,
From The Datebook of Tachito Somoza
1979: Managua “Tourism must be stimulated,”
1979: Managua Somoza’s Grandson
1979: Granada The Comandantes
1979: In All Nicaragua Birth
1979: Paris Darcy
1979: Santiago de Chile Stubborn Faith
1979: Chajul Another Kind of Political Education in Guatemala
The Mayas Plant Each Child That Is Born
1980: La Paz The Cococracy
1980: Santa Ana de Yacuma Portrait of a Modern Businessman
The White Goddess
1980: Santa Marta Marijuana
1980: Santa Marta Saint Agatón
1980: Guatemala City Newsreel
1980: Uspantán Rigoberta
1980: San Salvador The Offering
1980: Montevideo A People Who Say No
1980: In All Nicaragua On Its Way
1980: Asunción Stroessner
1980: In All Nicaragua Discovering
1980: New York The Statue of Liberty Seems Pitted with Smallpox
1980: New York Lennon
1981: Surahammar Exile
1981: Celica Canton “Bad Luck, Human Error, Bad Weather”
1982: South Georgia Islands Portrait of a Brave Fellow
1982: Malvinas Islands The Malvinas War,
1982: The Roads of La Mancha Master Globetrotter
1982: Stockholm Novelist García Márquez Receives the Nobel Prize and Speaks of Our Lands Condemned to One Hundred Years of Solitude
1983: St. George’s The Reconquest of the Island of Grenada
1983: La Bermuda Marianela
1983: Santiago de Chile Ten Years after the Reconquest of Chile
1983: A Ravine between Cabildo and Petorca Television
1983: Buenos Aires The Granny Detectives
1983: Lima Tamara Flies Twice
1983: Buenos Aires What If the Desert Were Ocean and the Earth Were Sky?
1983: Plateau of Petitions The Mexican Theater of Dreams
1983: Tuma River Realization
1983: Managua Defiance
1983: Mérida The People Set God on His Feet,
1983: Managua Newsreel
1984: The Vatican The Holy Office of the Inquisition
1984: London Gold and Frankincense
A Circular Symphony for Poor Countries, in Six Successive Movements
1984: Washington 1984
1984: Washington We Are All Hostages
1984: São Paulo Twenty Years after the Reconquest of Brazil
1984: Guatemala City Thirty Years after the Reconquest of Guatemala,
1984: Rio de Janeiro Mishaps of Collective Memory in Latin America
1984: Mexico City Against Forgetting,
1984: Mexico City The Resurrection of the Living
1984: Estelí Believing
1984: Havana Miguel at Seventy-Nine
1984: Paris The Echoes Go Searching for the Voice
1984: Punta Santa Elena The Eternal Embrace
1984: Violeta Parra Community The Stolen Name
1984: Tepic The Found Name
1984: Bluefields Flying
1986: Montevideo A Letter
The Sources
Index
Memory of Fire, Volume One
Eduardo Galeano
Translated by Cedric Belfrage
“I believe in memory not as a place of arrival, but as point of departure—a catapult throwing you into present times, allowing you to imagine the future instead of accepting it. It would be absolutely impossible for me to have any connection with history if history were just a collection of dead people, dead names, dead facts. That’s why I wrote Memory of Fire in the present tense, trying to keep alive everything that happened and allow it to happen again, as soon as the reader reads it.”
EDUARDO GALEANO
Contents
Preface
First Voices
The Creation
Time
The Sun and the Moon
The Clouds
The Wind
The Rain
The Rainbow
Day
Night
The Stars
The Milky Way
The Evening Star
Language
Fire
The Forest
The Cedar
The Guaiacum Tree
Colors
Love
The Rivers and the Sea
The Tides
Snow
The Flood
The Tortoise
The Parrot
The Hummingbird
The Night Bird (Urutaú)
The Ovenbird
The Crow
The Condor
The Jaguar
The Bear
The Crocodile
The Armadillo
The Rabbit
The Snake
The Frog
The Bat
Mosquitos
Honey
Seeds
Corn
Tobacco
Maté
Cassava
The Potato
The Kitchen
Music
Death
Resurrection
Magic
Laughter
Fear
Authority
Power
War
Parties
Conscience
The Sacred City
Pilgrims
The Promised Land
Dangers
The Spider Web
The Prophet
Old New World
1492: The Ocean Sea The Sun Route to the Indies
1492: Guanahaní Columbus
1493: Barcelona Day of Glory
1493: Rome The Testament of Adam
1493: Huexotzingo Where Is the Truth? Where Are the Roots?
1493: Pasto Everybody Pays Taxes
1493: Santa Cruz Island An Experience of Miquele de Cuneo from Savona
1495: Salamanca The First Word from America
1495: La Isabela Caonabó
1496: La Concepción Sacrilege
1498: Santo Domingo Earthly Paradise
The Language of Paradise
1499: Granada Who Are Spaniards?
1500: Florence Leonardo
1506: Valladolid The Fifth Voyage
1506: Tenochtitlán The Universal God
1511: Guauravo River Agüeynaba
1511: Aymaco Becerrillo
1511: Yara Hatuey
1511: Santo Domingo The First Protest
1513: Cuareca Leoncico
1513: Gulf of San Miguel Balboa
1514: Sinú River The Summons
1514: Santa María del Darién For Love of Fruit
1515: Antwerp Utopia
1519: Frankfurt Charles V
1519: Acla Pedrarias
1519: Tenochtitlán Portents of Fire, Water, Earth, and Air
1519: Cempoala Cortés
1519: Tenochtitlán Moctezuma
1519: Tenochtitlán The Capital of the Aztecs
Aztec Song of the Shield
1520: Teocalhueyacan “Night of Sorrow”
1520: Segura de la Frontera The Distribution of Wealth
1520: Brussels Dürer
1520: Tlaxcala Toward the Reconquest of Tenochtitlán
1521: Tlatelolco Sword of Fire
1521: Tenochtitlán The World Is Silenced in the Rain
1521: Florida Ponce de León
1522: Highways of Santo Domingo Feet
1522: Seville The Longest Voyage Ever Made
1523: Cuzco Huaina Cápac
1523: Cuauhcapolca The Chief’s Questions
1523: Painala Malinche
1524: Quetzaltenango The Poet Will Tell Children the Story of This Battle
1524: Utatlán The Vengeance of the Vanquished
1524: Scorpion Islands Communion Ceremony
1525: Tuxkahá Cuauhtémoc
1526: Toledo The American Tiger
1528: Madrid To Loosen the Purse Strings
1528: Tumbes Day of Surprises
1528: Bad Luck Island “People Very Generous with What They Have …”
1531: Orinoco River Diego de Ordaz
Piaroa People’s Song About the White Man
1531: Mexico City The Virgin of Guadelupe
1531: Santo Domingo A Letter
1531: Serrana Island The Castaway and the Other
1532: Cajamarca Pizarro
1533: Cajamarca The Ransom
1533: Cajamarca Atahualpa
1533: Xaquixaguana The Secret
1533: Cuzco The Conquerors Enter the Sacred City
1533: Riobamba Alvarado
1533: Quito This City Kills Itself
1533: Barcelona The Holy Wars
1533: Seville The Treasure of the Incas
1534: Riobamba Inflation
1535: Cuzco The Brass Throne
1536: Mexico City Motolinía
1536: Machu Picchu Manco Inca
1536: Valley of Ulúa Gonzalo Guerrero
1536: Culiacán Cabeza de Vaca
1537: Rome The Pope Says They Are Like Us
1538: Santo Domingo The Mirror
1538: Valley of Bogota Blackbeard, Redbeard, Whitebeard
1538: Masaya Volcano Vulcan, God of Money
1541: Santiago de Chile Inés Suárez
1541: Rock of Nochistlán Never
1541: Old Guatemala City Beatriz
1541: Cabo Frío At Dawn, the Cricket Sang
1542: Quito El Dorado
1542: Conlapayara The Amazons
1542: Iguazú River In Broad Daylight
1543: Cubagua The Pearl Fishers
1544: Machu Picchu The Stone Throne
War Song of the Incas
1544: Campeche Las Casas
1544: Lima Carvajal
1545: Royal City of Chiapas The Bad News Comes from Valladolid
1546: Potosí The Silver of Potosí
1547: Valparaíso The Parting
Song of Nostalgia, from the Spanish Songbook
1548: Xaquixaguana The Battle of Xaquixaguana Is Over
1548: Xaquixaguana The Executioner
1548: Xaquixaguana On Cannibalism in America
1548: Guanajuato Birth of the Guanajuato Mines
1549; La Serena The Return
The Last Time
1552: Valladolid He Who Always Took the Orders Now Gives Them
1553: The Banks of the San Pedro River Miguel
A Dream of Pedro de Valdivia
1553: Tucapel Lautaro
1553: Tucapel Valdivia
1553: Potosí Beauty and the Mayor
To the Strains of the Barrel Organ a Blind Man Sings to Her Who Sleeps Alone
1553: Potosí The Mayor and the Gallant
1554: Cuzco The Mayor and the Ears
1554: Lima The Mayor and the Bill Collector
1554: Mexico City Sepúlveda
1556: Asunción, Paraguay Conquistadoras
1556: Asunción, Paraguay “The Paradise of Mahomet”
Womanizer Song, from the Spanish Songbook
1556: La Imperial Mariño de Lobera
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Araucanian Song of the Phantom Horseman
1558: Michmaloyan The Tzitzimes
1558: Yuste Who Am I? What Have I Been?
1559: Mexico City The Mourners
Advice of the Old Aztec Wise Men
1560: Huexotzingo The Reward
1560: Michoacán Vasco de Quiroga
1561: Villa de los Bergantines The First Independence of America
1561: Nueva Valencia del Rey Aguirre
1561: Neuva Valencia del Rey From Lope de Aguirre’s Letter to King Philip II
1561. Barquisimeto Order Restored
1562: Maní The Fire Blunders
1563: Arauco Fortress The History That Will Be
1564: Plymouth Hawkins
1564: Bogotá Vicissitudes of Married Life
1565. Road to Lima The Spy
1565: Yauyoa That Stone Is Me
Prayer of the Incas, Seeking God
1565: Mexico City Ceremony
1566: Madrid The Fanatic of Human Dignity
1566: Madrid Even If You Lose, It’s Still Worthwhile
1568: Los Teques Guaicaipuro
1568; Mexico City The Sons of Cortés
1569: Havana St. Simon Against the Ants
1571: Mexico City Thou Shalt Inform On Thy Neighbor
1571: Madrid Who Is Guilty, Criminal or Witness?
1572: Cuzco Túpac Amaru I
The Vanquished Believe:
1574: Mexico City The First Auto-da-Fé in Mexico
1576: Guanajuato The Monks Say:
1576: Xochimilco The Apostle Santiago versus the Plague
1577: Xochimilco St. Sebastian versus the Plague
1579: Quito Son of Atahualpa
1580: Buenos Aires The Founders
1580: London Drake
1582: Mexico City What Color Is a Leper’s Skin?
1583: Copacabana God’s Aymara Mother
1583: Santiago de Chile He Was Free for a While
1583: Tlatelolco Sahagiún
1583: Ácoma The Stony Kingdom of Cíbola
Night Chant, a Navajo Poem
1586: Cauri The Pestilence
1588: Quito Grandson of Atahualpa
1588: Havana St. Martial versus the Ants
1589: Cuzco He Says He Had the Sun
1592: Lima An Auto-da-Fé in Lima
1593: Guarapari Anchieta
1596: London Raleigh
1597: Seville A Scene in Jail
1598: Potosí History of Floriana Rosales, Virtuous Woman of Potosí (Abbreviated Version of the Chronicle by Bartolomé Arzáns de Orsúa y Vela)
Spanish Couplets to Be Sung and Danced
1598: Panama City Times of Sleep and Fate
1599: Quito The Afro-Indians of Esmeraldas
1599: Chagres River The Wise Don’t Talk
1599: La Imperial Flaming Arrows
1599: Santa Maria They Make War to Make Love
1600: Santa Marta They Had a Country
Techniques of Hunting and Fishing
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