This systematic violence is not apparent but is real and constantly increasing: its holocausts are not made known in the sensational press but in Food and Agricultural Organization statistics. The human murder by poverty in Latin America is secret every year, without making a sound, three Hirsohima bombs explode over communities that have become accustomed to suffering with clenched teeth. The strength of the imperialist system as a whole rests on the necessary inequality of its parts. In the colonial and neocolonial alchemy, gold changes into scrap metal and food into poison. Our defeat was always implicit in the victory of others our wealth has always generated our poverty by nourishing the prosperity of others-the empires and their native overseers. But the winners happen to have won thanks to our losing: the history of Latin America's underdevelopment is, as someone had said, is an integral part of world capitalism's development. For those who see history as a competition, Latin America's backwardness and poverty are merely the result of its failure.
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