Memory of the fire: Horn of the wind, by Eduardo Galeano

European imperialist powers exploited the peoples and resources of the New World for centuries, and while soldiers seeking wealth advanced across the continents in search of El Dorado, white settlers established agricultural colonies and trading posts along the coasts, changing the nature of the land and bringing diseases and slavery with them. In the midst of bloody clashes between civilizations, new communities were born from the old ones. In the second part of the trilogy Memory of Fire, titled "Faces and Masks," Galeano offers a new understanding of the Americas, rewriting history from multiple and diverse perspectives. In this book, which covers the end of the empire and the age of revolutions, Galeano skillfully weaves together threads of history often narrated by the victors and from their point of view, but Galeano rewrites the story, the story of an entire continent, with the voice and perspective of its children who paid the price of crossing history on their land. It is the story of the stolen, annihilated, and marginalized peoples; this is what Galeano writes through texts described by critics as a "literary collage."