Las venas abiertas de América Latina

I liked the parts with history unknown to me (scale of exploitation in the early centuries after discovery of America by Europeans, Paraguay vs Brazil/Argentina/Peru war...).

Most of everything else seems economically ignorant ranting and whining about imperialists artificially setting prices and destroying Latin America both with low and high prices of the commodities it exports. The book meanders aimlessly between countries and historical periods and is full of relatively unconnected facts (often too contemporary to be interesting today).

Even the heroes (socialist leaders) don't get enough mention, there's more about how they got taken down than what they did.

The weird part is i'm still relatively convinced that other countries have a lot to do with much of Latin America's ills, it's just that this book is a pretty bad analysis of it.