Sudamérica II - El fracaso regional
Shaila
South America II - The regional failure
Our defeat is their victory in the regional failure of backwardness and misery
the development of international capitalism gave us this poverty
Don't you see it's time to be, to be born?
Our wealth is no longer ours and your home is now called a suburb of the system
from your deficiencies alone feeds the prosperity of those who subdue us
Don't you see it's time to be, to be born?
Don't you see?
"It is Latin America, the region of open veins. From the discovery to our days, everything has always been transmuted into European capital or, later, North American, and as such has accumulated and accumulates in the distant centers of power. Everything: the land, its fruits and its mineral-rich depths, the men and their capacity for work and consumption, the natural resources and human resources. The mode of production and class structure of each place have been successively determined, from outside, by their incorporation into the universal capitalist machinery." (Galeano, Eduardo, Open Veins of Latin America, Siglo Veintiuno, Madrid, 15th edition)
That is your reality, our reality. The regional failure is ours, it is an entire continent oppressed under a single fist disguised in fascist symbols that are flaunted in economic inter-blocks.
Don't you see it's time? Time to be, to be born
