In his “The Open Veins of Latin America”, Eduardo Galeano recognizes this continent as a single geopolitical whole, sharing history, culture and a common destiny: exporter of raw materials for the international markets. Always under the control of foreign domination, first the European colonial powers, then US interference in the twentieth century.
The Open Veins is a personal long-term project, a free journey across the continent started in 2015, in search of how the exploitation of human and environmental resources has evolved in the last decade.
The miners of Cerro Rico in PotosÃ, the suburbs of Buenos Aires, the forgotten and marginal Northeast of Brazil, the outskirts of Bogota during the Covid 19 pandemic, the banana plantations in Ecuador, the legacy of the Mexican revolution and the construction of new hydroelectric power plants in Colombia.