> .. the regions now most underdeveloped and poverty-stricken are those which in the past had had the closest links with the metropolis and had enjoyed periods of boom.. Having once been the biggest producers of goods exported to Europe, or.. the #USA, and the richest sources of capital, they were abandoned by the metropolis.. when business sagged. #Potosí is the outstanding example of this descent into the vacuum.
#EduardoGaleano #OpenVeinsOfLatinAmerica on #ResourceCurse, #NutmegsCurse