"The owners of power have built a factory of fear. We become afraid of words, memory and the neighbor. The neighbor is a promise, not a menace."

Eduardo Galeano's new book is: "Mirrors: Stories of Almost Everyone." His past works include "Memory of Fire Trilogy," "Open Veins of Latin America," "Upside Down" and "We Say No."

to hear Eduardo Galeano on Laura Flanders' Grit TV. August 17, 2009, click on
lauraflanders.firedoglake.com/2009/08/17/eduardo-galeano-games-for-change-and-out-in-the-silence-2/