Faces and Masks
Eduardo Galeano
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Faces and Masks
Memory of Fire, Volume Two
Eduardo Galeano
Contents
Preface
Promise of America
1701: Salinas Valley The Skin of God
1701: Sāo Salvador de Bahia Voice of America
1701: Paris Temptation of America
Sentinel of America
1701: Ouro Prêto Conjuring Tricks
1703: Lisbon Gold, Passenger in Transit
1709: The Juan Fernández Islands Robinson Crusoe
1711: Paramaribo The Silent Women
They Carry Life in Their Hair
The Maroon
1711: Murrí They Are Never Alone
1711: Saint Basil’s Refuge The Black King, the White Saint, and His Sainted Wife
The Maríapalito
1712: Santa Marta From Piracy to Contraband
1714: Ouro Prêto The Mine Doctor
1714: Vila Nova do Príncipe Jacinta
1716: Potosí Holguín
1716: Cuzco The Image Makers
Mary, Mother Earth
Pachamama
Mermaids
1717: Quebec The Man Who Didn’t Believe in Winter
1717: Dupas Island The Founders
Portrait of the Indians
Songs of the Chippewa Indians in the Great Lakes Region
1718: Sāo José del Rei The Pillory
1719: Potosí The Plague
1721: Zacatecas To Eat God
If You Inadvertently Lose Your Soul
1726: Montevideo Bay Montevideo
1733: Ouro Prêto Fiestas
1736: Saint John’s, Antigua Flare-ups
1738: Trelawny Town Cudjoe
1739: New Nanny Town Nanny
Pilgrimage in Jamaica
1742: Juan Fernández Islands Anson
1753: Sierra Leone River Let Us Praise the Lord
1758: Cap Français Macandal
1761: Cisteil Canek
1761: Merida Fragments
1761: Cisteil Sacred Corn
1763: Buraco de Tatú The Subversives Set a Bad Example
Communion
Bahia Portrait
Your Other Head, Your Other Memory
1763: Rio de Janeiro Here
1763: Tijuco The World Inside a Diamond
1763: Havana Progress
The Slaves Believe:
The Ceiba Tree
The Royal Palm
1766: The Fields of Areco The Wild Horses
1767: Misiones The Story of Seven Villages
1767: Misiones The Expulsion of the Jesuits
1767: Misiones They Won’t Let Their Tongues Be Torn Out
1769: London The First Novel Written in America
Indians and Dreams in the Novel of Frances Brooke
1769: Lima Viceroy Amat
1769: Lima La Perricholi
The Snack Clock
1771: Madrid Royal Summit
1771: Paris The Age of Enlightenment
1771: Paris The Physiocrats
1771: Paris The Minister of Colonies Explains Why Mulattos Should Not Be Freed from Their Congenital “State of Humiliation”
1772: Cap Français France’s Richest Colony
1772: Léogane Zabeth
1773: San Mateo Huitzilopochco The Strength of Things
1774: San Andres ltzapan Dominus Vobiscum
1775: Guatemala City Sacraments
1775: Huehuetenango Trees that Know, Bleed, Talk
1775: Gado-Saby Bonny
1776: Cape Coast Castle Alchemists of the African Slave Trade
1776: Pennsylvania Paine
1776: Philadelphia The United States
1776: Monticello Jefferson
1777: Paris Franklin
If He Had Been Born a Woman
1778: Philadelphia Washington
1780: Bologna Clavijero Defends the Accursed Lands
1780: Sangarara America Burns from Mountains to Sea
1780: Tungasuca Túpac Amaru II
1780: Pomacanchi The Workshop Is an Enormous Ship
A Colonial Poem: If the Indians Triumph …
1781: Bogotá The Commoners
1781: Támara The Plainsmen
1781: Zipaquirá Galán ‘
Popular Ballad of the Commoners
1781: Cuzco The Center of the Earth, the House of the Gods
1781: Cuzco Dust and Sorrow Are the Roads of Peru
1781: Cuzco Sacramental Ceremony in the Torture Chamber
1781: Cuzco Areche’s Order Against Inca Dress and to Make Indians Speak Spanish
1781: Cuzco Micaela
1781: Cuzco Sacred Rain
The Indians Believe:
The Indians Dance to the Glory of Paradise
1781: Chincheros Pumacahua
1781: La Paz Tupac Catari
1782: La Paz Rebel Women
1782: Guaduas With Glassy Eyes,
1782: Sicuani This Accursed Name
1783: Panama City For Love of Death
1783: Madrid The Human Hand Vindicated
1785: Mexico City Lawyer Villarroel Against the Pulque Saloon
The Pulque Saloon
Pulque
The Maguey
The Mug
1785: Mexico City Fiction in the Colonial Era
1785: Guanajuato The Wind Blows Where It Wants
1785: Guanajuato Silver Portrait
1785: Lisbon The Colonial Function
1785: Versailles The Potato Becomes a Great Lady
The Potato Was Born of Love and Punishment, As They Tell It in the Andes
1790: Parti Humboldt
1790: Petit Goâve The Missing Magic
1791: Bois Caiman The Conspirators of Haiti
Haitian Love Song
1792: Rio de Janeiro The Conspirators of Brazil
1792: Rio de Janeiro Tooth-Puller
1794: Paris “The remedy for man is man,”
1795: Mountains of Haiti Toussaint
1795: Santo Domingo The Island Burned
1795: Quito Espejo
Espejo Mocks the Oratory of These Times
1795: Montego Bay Instruments of War
1795: Havana Did the Gallilean Rebel Imagine He Would Be a Slave Overseer?
1796: Ouro Prêto El Aleijadinho
1796: Mariana Ataíde
1796: Sāo Salvador de Bahiā Night and Snow
1796: Caracas White Skin For Sale
1796: San Mateo Simón Rodríguez
1797: La Guaira The Compass and the Square
1799: London Miranda
Miranda Dreams of Catherine of Russia
1799: Cumaná Two Wise Men on a Mule
1799: Montevideo Father of the Poor
1799: Guanajuato Life, Passion, and Business of the Ruling Class
1799: Royal City of Chiapas The Tamemes
1799: Madrid Fernando Túpac Amaru
1800: Apure River To the Orinoco
1800: Esmeralda del Orinoco Master of Poison
Curare
1800: Uruana Forever Earth
1801: Lake Guatavita The Goddess at the Bottom of the Waters
1801: Bogotá Mutis
1802: The Caribbean Sea Napoleon Restores Slavery
1802: Pointe-à-Pitre They Were Indignant
1802: Chimborazo Volcano On the Roofs of the World
1803. Fort Dauphin The Island Burned Again
1804: Mexico City Spain’s Richest Colony
1804: Madrid The Attorney General of the
Council of the Indies advises against overdoing the sale of whiteness certificates,
1804: Catamarca Ambrosio’s Sin
1804: Paris Napoleon
1804: Seville Fray Servando
1806: Island of Trinidad Adventures, Misadventures
1808: Rio de Janeiro Judas-Burning Is Banned
1809: Chuquisaca The Cry
1810: Atotonilco The Virgin of Guadalupe Versus the Virgin of Remedios
1810: Guanajuato El Pípila
1810: Guadalajara Hidalgo
1810: Pie de la Cuesta Morelos
1811: Buenos Aires Moreno
1811: Buenos Aires Castelli
1811: Bogotá Nariño
The World Upside Down, Verses for Guitar Accompanied by Singer
1811: Chilapa Potbelly
1811: East Bank Ranges “Nobody is more than anybody,”
1811: Banks of the Uruguay River Exodus
1812: Cochabamba Women
1812: Caracas Bolivar
1813: Chilpancingo Independence is Revolution or a Lie
1814: San Mateo Boves
1815: San Cristóbal Ecatepec The Lake Comes For Him
1815: Paris Navigators of Seas and Libraries
1815: Mérida, Yucatan Ferdinand VII
1815: Curuzú-Cuatiá The Hides Cycle on the River Plata
1815: Buenos Aires The Bluebloods Seek a King in Europe HO
1815: Purification Camp Artigas
1816: East Bank Ranges Agrarian Reform
1816: Chicote Hill The Art of War
1816: Tarabuco Juana Azurduy,
1816: Port-au-Prince Pétion
1816: Mexico City El Periquillo Sarniento
1817: Santiago de Chile The Devil at Work
1817: Santiago de Chile Manuel Rodriguez
1817: Montevideo Images for an Epic
1817: Quito Manuela Saenz
1818: Colonia Camp The War of the Underdogs
1818: Corrientes Andresito
1818: Paraná River The Patriot Pirates
1818: San Fernando de Apure War to the Death
1819: Angostura Abecedarium: The Constituent Assembly
1820: Boquerón Pass Finale
You
1821: Camp Laurelty Saint Balthazar, Black King, Greatest Sage
1821: Carabobo Páez
1822: Guayaquil San Martin
1822: Buenos Aires Songbird
1822: Rio de Janeiro Traffic Gone Mad
1822: Quito Twelve Nymphs Stand Guard in the Main Plaza
1823: Lima Swollen Hands from So Much Applauding
1824: Lima In Spite of Everything
1824: Montevideo City Chronicles from a Barber’s Chair
1824: Plain of Junín The Silent Battle
1825: La Paz Bolivia
1825: Potosí Abecedarium: The Hero at the Peak
1825: Potosí England Is Owed a Potosí
The Curse of the Silver Mountain
1826: Chuquisaca Bolivar and the Indians
1826: Chuquisaca Cursed Be the Creative Imagination
The Ideas of Simon Rodriguez: Teaching How to Think
1826: Buenos Aires Rivadavia
1826: Panama Lonely Countries
1826: London Canning
1828: Bogotá Here They Hate Her
1828: Bogota From Manuela Sáenz’s Letter to Her Husband James Thome
1829: Corrientes Bonpland
1829: Asunción, Paraguay Francia the Supreme
1829: Rio de Janeiro The Snowball of External Debt
1830: Magdalena River The Boat Goes Down to the Sea
1830: Maracaibo The Governor Proclaims:
1830: La Guaira Divide et Impera
1830: Montevideo Abecedarium: The Oath of the Constitution
1830: Montevideo Fatherland or Grave
1832: Santiago de Chile National Industry
Street Cries in the Santiago de Chile Market
1833: Arequipa Llamas
1833: San Vicente Aquino
1834: Paris Tacuabé
1834: Mexico City Loving Is Giving
1835: Galapagos Islands Darwin
1835: Columbia Texas
1836: San Jacinto The Free World Grows
1836: The Alamo Portraits of the Frontier Hero
1836: Hartford The Colt
1837: Guatemala Morazán
1838: Buenos Aires Rosas
1838: Buenos Aires The Slaughterhouse
More on Cannibalism in America
1838: Tegucigalpa Central America Breaks to Pieces
1839: Copán A Sacred City is Sold for Fifty Dollars
1839: Havana The Drum Talks Dangerously
1839: Havana Classified Ads
1839: Valparaíso The Illuminator
1839: Veracruz “For God’s Sake, a Husband, Be He Old, One-Armed, or Crippled”
1840: Mexico City Masquerade
Mexican High Society: Introduction to a Visit
A Day of Street Cries in Mexico City
Mexican High Society: The Doctor Says Goodbye
1840: Mexico City A Nun Begins Convent Life
1842: San José, Costa Rica Though Time Forget You, This Land Will Not
1844: Mexico City The Warrior Cocks
1844: Mexico City Santa Anna
1845: Vuelta de Obligado The Invasion of the Merchants
1847: Mexico City The Conquest
1848: Villa of Guadalupe Hidalgo The Conquistadors
1848: Mexico City The Irishmen
1848: Ibiray An Old Man in a White Poncho in a House of Red Stone
José Artigas, According to Domingo Faustino Sarmiento
1848: Buenos Aires The Lovers (I)
The Lovers (II)
1848: Holy Places The Lovers (III)
1848: Bacalar Cecilio Chi
1849: Shores of the Platte River A Horseman Called Smallpox
1849: San Francisco The Gold of California
1849: El Molino They Were Here
Ashes
1849: Baltimore Poe
1849: San Francisco Levi’s Pants
1850: Son Francisco The Road to Development
1850: Buenos Aires The Road to Underdevelopment: The Thought of Domingo Faustino Sarmiento
1850: River Plata Buenos Aires and Montevideo at Mid-Century
1850: Paris Dumas
1850: Montevide Lautréamont at Four
1850: Chan Santa Cruz The Talking Cross
1851: Latacunga “I Wander at Random and Naked …”
The Ideas of Simón Rodríguez: “Either We Invent or We Are Lost”
1851: La Serena The Precursors
1852: Santiago de Chile “What has independence meant to the poor?” the Chilean Santiago Arcos asks himself in jail.
The People of Chile Sing to the Glory of Paradise
1852: Mendoza The Lines of the Hand
1853: La Cruz The Treasure of the Jesuits
1853: Paita The Three
1854: Amotape A Witness Describes Simon Rodriguez’s Farewell to the World
1855: New York Whitman
1855: New York Melville
1855: Washington Territory “You people will suffocate in your own waste,” warns Indian Chief Seattle.
The Far West
1856: Granada Walker
1856: Granada Stood
Walker: “In Defense of Slavery”
1858: Source of the Gila River The Sacred Lands of the Apaches
1858: Kaskiyeh Geronimo
1858: San Borja Let Death Die
1860: Chan Santa Cruz The Ceremonial Center of the Yucatan Rebels
1860: Havana Poet in Crisis
1861: Havana Sugar Hands
Sugar Language
1861: Bull Run Grays Against Blues
1862: Fredericksburg The Pencil of War
1863: Mexico City “The American Algeria”
1863: London Marx
1865: La Paz Belzu
From a Speech by Belzu to the Bolivian People
1865: La Paz Melgarejo
1865: La Paz The Shortest Coup d’État in History
1865: Appomattox General Lee Surrenders His Ruby Sword
1865: Washington Lincoln
1865: Washington Homage
1865: Buenos Aires Triple Infamy
1865: Buenos Aires The Alliance Woven of Spider-Spittle
1865: San José Urquiza
1866: Curupaytí Mitre
1866: Curupaytí The Paintbrush of War
1867: Catamarca Plains Felipe Varela
1867: Plains of La Rioja Torture
1867: La Paz On Diplomacy, the Science of International Relations
Inscriptions on a Rock in the Atacama Desert
1867: Bogota A Novel Called María
1867: Querétaro Maximilian
1867: Paris To Be or to Copy, That Is the Question
Song of the Poor in Ecuador
1869: Mexico City Juárez
1869: San Cristóbal de Las Casas Neither Earth nor Time Is Dumb
1869: Mexico City Juárez and the Indians
1869: London Lafargue
1869: Acosta Ñú Paraguay Falls, Trampled Under Horses’ Hooves
1870. Mount Corá Solano López
1870: Mount Corá Elisa Lynch
Guaraní
1870: Buenos Aires Sarmiento
1870: Rio de Janeiro A Thousand Candelabra Proliferate in the Mirrors
1870: Rio de Janeiro Mauà
1870: Vassouras The Coffee Barons
1870: Sāo Paulo Nabuco
1870: Buenos Aires The North Barrio
1870: Paris Lautréamont at Twenty-Four
1871: Lima Juana Sánchez
1873: Camp Tempú The Mambises
1875: Mexico City Martí
1875: Fort Sill The Last Buffalos of the South
Into the Beyond
1876: Little Big Horn Sitting Bull
1876: Little Big Horn Black Elk
1876: Little Big Horn Custer
1876: War Bonnet Creek Buffalo Bill
1876: Mexico City Departure
1877: Guatemala City The Civilizer
1879: Mexico City The Socialists and the Indians
1879: Choele-Choel Island The Remington Method
1879: Buenos Aires Martín Fierro and the Twilight of the Gaucho
1879: Port-au-Prince Maceo
1879: Chinchas Islands Guano
1879: Atacama and Tarapacá Deserts Saltpeter
1880: Lima The Chinese
1880: London In Defense of Indolence
1881: Lincoln City Billy the Kid
1882: Saint Joseph Jesse James
1882: Prairies of Oklahoma Twilight of the Cowboy
1882: New York You Too Can Succeed in Life
1882: New York The Creation According to John D. Rockefeller
1883: Bismarck City The Last Bufelos of the North
1884: Santiago de Chile The Wizard of Finance Eats Soldier Meat
1884: Huancayo The Fatherland Pays
1885: Lima “The trouble comes from the top,” says Manuel Gonzalez Prada.
