Just finished reading Galeano's masterpiece and wow - this isn't your typical history book. It reads more like a 500-year crime report against my continent.

The way Galeano connects colonial plunder to modern economic exploitation is mind-blowing. Never realized my morning coffee and bananas might have such bloody backstories.

Some chapters made me physically sick - especially about the Paraguayan genocide. How is this not common knowledge? Our education systems have failed us.

Pro tip: Don't read this before bed unless you want nightmares about conquistadors and CIA coups. The writing is poetic but the content is devastating.

Funny how this 'dangerous radical' book feels more relevant today than when it was published. That forward by Isabel Allende? Chef's kiss.

PS - Pope Francis fans will find some interesting parallels here. Who knew the Vatican and Marxist historians could agree on capitalism's sins?