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Century of the Wind
Eduardo Galeano
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Century of the Wind
Eduardo Galeano
About This Book
"Nothing less than a unified history of the Western Hemisphere." — The New Yorker From Guatemala to Rio de Janeiro, La Paz to New York City, Managua to Havana, Century of the Wind ties together the events and people—both large and small—that define the Americas. In hundreds of lyrical and vivid narratives, the final installment of Galeano's indispensible trilogy sees the building of the Panama Canal, the disenfranchisement of indigenous peoples living over Colombia's oil fields, the creation of Superman and the heyday of Faulkner, and coups and upheavals that cleaved an already fragmented continent. Galeano's elegy moves year by year through the century of Castro, Picasso, and Reagan, blending the many voices and varying locales of North and South America and forming a history that is stunning in its scope and savage beauty.
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- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Contents
- Preface
- Epigraph
- 1900: San José de Gracia The World Goes On
- 1900: West Orange, New Jersey Edison
- 1900: Montevideo Rodó
- 1901: New York This Is America, to the South There’s Nothing
- 1901: In All Latin America Processions Greet the Birth of the Century
- 1901: Amiens Verne
- 1902: Quetzaltenango The Government Decides That Reality Doesn’t Exist
- 1902: Guatemala City Estrada Cabrera
- 1902: Saint Pierre Only the Condemned Is Saved
- 1903: Panama City The Panama Canal
- 1903: Panama City Casualties of This War: One Chinese, One Burro,
- 1903: La Paz Huilka
- 1904: Rio de Janeiro Vaccine
- 1905: Montevideo The Automobile,
- 1905: Montevideo The Decadent Poets
- 1905: Ilopango Miguel at One Week
- 1906: Paris Santos Dumont
- 1907: Sagua la Grande Lam
- 1907: Iquique The Flags of Many Countries
- 1907: Rio Batalha Nimuendajú
- 1908: Asunción Barrett
- 1908: San Andrés de Sotavento The Government Decides That Indians Don’t Exist
- 1908: San Andrés de Sotavento Portrait of a Master of Lives and Estates
- 1908: Guanape Portrait of Another Master of Lives and Estates
- 1908: Mérida, Yucatán Curtain Time and After
- 1908: Ciudad Juárez Wanted
- 1908: Caracas Castro
- 1908: Caracas Dolls
- 1909: Paris A Theory of National Impotence
- 1909: New York Charlotte
- 1909: Managua Inter-American Relations at Work
- 1910: Amazon Jungle The People Eaters
- 1910: Rio de Janeiro The Black Admiral
- 1910: Rio de Janeiro Portrait of Brazil’s Most Expensive Lawyer
- 1910: Rio de Janeiro Reality and the Law Seldom Meet
- 1910: Mauricio Colony Tolstoy
- 1910: Havana The Cinema
- 1910: Mexico City The Centennial and Love
- 1910: Mexico City The Centennial and Food
- 1910: Mexico City The Centennial and Art
- 1910: Mexico City The Centennial and the Dictator
- 1911: Anenecuilco Zapata
- 1911: Mexico City Madero
- 1911: The Fields of Chihuahua Pancho Villa
- 1911: Machu Picchu The Last Sanctuary of the Incas
- 1912: Quito Alfaro
- 1912: Cantón Santa Ana Chronicle of the Customs of Manabí
- 1912: Pajeú de Flores Family Wars
- 1912: Daiquirí Daily Life in the Caribbean: An Invasion
- 1912: Niquinohomo Daily Life in Central America: Another Invasion
- 1912: Mexico City Huerta
- 1913: Mexico City An Eighteen-Cent Rope
- 1913: Jonacatepec The Hordes Are Not Destroyed
- 1913: The Plains of Chihuahua The North of Mexico Celebrates War and Fiesta
- 1913: Culiacán Bullets
- 1913: The Fields of Chihuahua One of These Mornings I Murdered Myself,
- 1914: Montevideo Batlle
- 1914: San Ignacio Quiroga
- 1914: Montevideo Delmira
- 1914: Ciudad Jiménez Chronicler of Angry Peoples
- 1914: Salt Lake City Songster of Angry Peoples
- 1914: Torreón By Rail They March to Battle
- 1914: The Fields of Morelos It’s Time to Get Moving and Fight,
- 1914: Mexico City Huerta Flees
- 1915: Mexico City Power Ungrasped
- 1915: Tlaltizapán Agrarian Reform
- 1915: El Paso Azuela
- 1916: Tlaltizapán Carranza
- 1916: Buenos Aires Isadora
- 1916: New Orleans Jazz
- 1916: Columbus Latin America Invades the United States
- 1916: León Darío
- 1917: The Fields of Chihuahua and Durango Eagles into Hens
- 1918: Córdoba Moldy Scholars
- 1918: Córdoba “The Pains That Linger Are the Liberties We Lack,” Proclaims the Student Manifesto
- 1918: Ilopango Miguel at Thirteen
- 1918: The Mountains of Morelos Ravaged Land, Living Land
- 1918: Mexico City The New Bourgeoisie is Born Lying
- 1919: Cuautla This Man Taught Them That Life Is Not Only Fear of Suffering and Hope for Death
- 1919: Hollywood Chaplin
- 1919: Hollywood Keaton
- 1919: Memphis Thousands of People Flock to the Show,
- 1921: Rio de Janeiro Rice Powder
- 1921: Rio de Janeiro Pixinguinha
- 1921: Rio de Janeiro Brazil’s Fashionable Author
- 1922: Toronto This Reprieve
- 1922: Leavenworth For Continuing to Believe That All Belongs to All
- 1922: The Fields of Patagonia The Worker-Shoot
- 1923: Guayas River Crosses Float in the River,
- 1923: Acapulco The Function of the Forces of Order in the Democratic Process
- 1923: Azángaro Urviola
- 1923: Callao Mariátegui
- 1923: Buenos Aires Snapshot of a Worker-Hunter
- 1923: Tampico Traven
- 1923: The Fields of Durango Pancho Villa Reads the Thousand and One Nights,
- 1923: Mexico City/Parral The People Donated a Million Dead to the Mexican Revolution
- 1924: Mérida, Yucatán More on the Function of the Forces of Order in the Democratic Process
- 1924: Mexico City Nationalizing the Walls
- 1924: Mexico City Diego Rivera
- 1924: Mexico City Orozco
- 1924: Mexico City Siqueiros
- 1924: Regla Lenin
- 1926: San Albino Sandino
- 1926: Puerto Cabezas The Most Admirable Women on Earth
- 1926: Juazeiro do Norte Father Cicero
- 1926: Juazeiro do Norte By Divine Miracle a Bandit Becomes a Captain
- 1926: New York Valentino
- 1927: Chicago Louie
- 1927: New York Bessie
- 1927: Rapallo Pound
- 1927: Charlestown “Lovely day,”
- 1927: Araraquara Mário de Andrade
- 1927: Paris Villa-Lobos
- 1927: The Plains of Jalisco Behind a Huge Cross of Sticks
- 1927: San Gabriel de Jalisco A Child Looks On
- 1927: El Chipote The War of Jaguars and Birds
- 1928: San Rafael del Norte Crazy Little Army
- 1928: Washington Newsreel
- 1928: Managua Profile of Colonial Power
- 1928: Mexico City Obregón
- 1928: Villahermosa The Priest Eater
- 1928: Southern Santa Marta Bananization
- 1928: Aracataca The Curse
- 1928: Ciénaga Carnage
- 1928: Aracataca García Márquez
- 1928: Bogotá Newsreel
- 1929: Mexico City Mella
- 1929: Mexico City Tina Modotti
- 1929: Mexico City Frida
- 1929: Capela Lampião
- 1929: Atlantic City The Crime Trust
- 1929: Chicago Al Capone
- 1929: New York Euphoria
- 1929: New York The Crisis
- 1930: La Paz A Touching Adventure of the Prince of Wales Among the Savages
- 1930: Buenos Aires Yrigoyen
- 1930: Paris Ortiz Echagüe, Journalist, Comments on the Fallen Price of Meat
- 1930: Avellaneda The Cow, the Sword, and the Cross
- 1930: Castex The Last Rebel Gaucho
- 1930: Santo Domingo The Hurricane
- 1930: Ilopango Miguel at Twenty-Five
- 1930: New York Daily Life in the Crisis
- 1930: Achuapa Shrinking the Rainbow
- 1931: Bocay The Trumpets Will Sound
- 1931: Bocay Santos López
- 1931: Bocay Tranquilino
- 1931: Bocay Little Cabrera
- 1931: Hanwell The Winner
- 1932: Hollywood The Loser
- 1932: Mexico City Eisenstein
- 1932: The Roads of Santa Fe The Puppeteer
- 1932: Izalco The Right to Vote and Its Painful Consequences
- 1932: Soyapango Miguel at Twenty-Six
- 1932: Managua Sandino Is Advancing
- 1932: San Salvador Miguel at Twenty-Seven
- 1933: Managua The First U.S. Military Defeat in Latin America
- 1933: Camp Jordán The Chaco War
- 1934: Managua Horror Film: Scenario for Two Actors and a Few Extras
- 1934: Managua The Government Decides That Crime Does Not Exist
- 1934: San Salvador Miguel at Twenty-Nine
- 1935: The Villamontes-Boyuibe Road After Ninety Thousand Deaths
- 1935: Maracay Gómez
- 1935: Buenos Aires Borges
- 1935: Buenos Aires These Infamous Years
- 1935: Buenos Aires Discepolín
- 1935: Buenos Aires Evita
- 1935: Buenos Aires Alfonsina
- 1935: Medellín Gardel
- 1936: Buenos Aires Patoruzú
- 1936: Rio de Janeiro Olga and He
- 1936: Madrid The Spanish War
- 1936: San Salvador Martínez
- 1936: San Salvador: Miguel at Thirty-One
- 1936: Guatemala City Ubico
- 1936: Trujillo City In the Year Six of the Trujillo Era
- 1937: Dajabón Procedure Against the Black Menace
- 1937: Washington Newsreel
- 1937: Rio de Janeiro Procedure Against the Red Menace
- 1937: Cariri Valley The Crime of Community
- 1937: Rio de Janeiro Monteiro Lobato
- 1937: Madrid Hemingway
- 1937: Mexico City The Bolero
- 1937: Mexico City Cantinflas
- 1937: Mexico City Cárdenas
- 1938: Anenecuilco Nicolás, Son of Zapata
- 1938: Mexico City The Nationalization of Oil
- 1938: Mexico City Showdown
- 1938: Coyoacán Trotsky
- 1938: The Hinterland The Cangaceiros
- 1938: Angico The Cangaceiro Hunters
- 1939: São Salvador de Bahia The Women of the Gods
- 1939: Rio de Janeiro The Samba
- 1939: Rio de Janeiro The Scoundrel
- 1939: Rio de Janeiro Cartola
- 1939: Montserrat Vallejo
- 1939: Washington Roosevelt
- 1939: Washington In the Year Nine of the Trujillo Era
- 1939: Washington Somoza
- 1939: New York Superman
- 1941: New York Portrait of an Opinion Maker
- 1942: New York The Red Cross Doesn’t Accept Black Blood
- 1942: Oxford, Mississippi Faulkner
- 1942: Hollywood Brecht
- 1942: Hollywood The Good Neighbors to the South
- 1942: María Barzola Pampa A Latin American Method for Reducing Production Costs
- 1943: Sans-Souci Carpentier
- 1943: Port-au-Prince Hands That Don’t Lie
- 1943: Mount Rouis A Little Grain of Salt
- 1944: New York Learning to See
- 1945: The Guatemala–El Salvador Border Miguel at Forty
- 1945: Hiroshima and Nagasaki A Sun of Fire,
- 1945: Princeton Einstein
- 1945: Buenos Aires Perón
- 1945: The Fields of Tucumán The Familiar
- 1945: The Fields of Tucumán Yupanqui
- 1946: La Paz The Rosca
- 1946: La Paz Villarroel
- 1946: Hollywood Carmen Miranda
- 1948: Bogotá On the Eve
- 1948: Bogotá Gaitán
- 1948: Bogotá The Bogotazo
- 1948: Bogotá Flames
- 1948: Bogotá Ashes
- 1948: Upar Valley The Vallenato
- 1948: Wroclaw Picasso
- 1948: Somewhere in Chile Neruda
- 1948: San José de Costa Rica Figueres
- 1949: Washington The Chinese Revolution
- 1949: Havana Radio Theater
- 1950: Rio de Janeiro Obdulio
- 1950: Hollywood Rita
- 1950: Hollywood Marilyn
- 1951: Mexico City Buñuel
- 1952: San Fernando Hill Sick unto Death
- 1952: La Paz El Illimani
- 1952: La Paz Drum of the People
- 1952: Cochabamba Cries of Mockery and Grievance
- 1952: Buenos Aires The Argentine People Feel Naked Without Her
- 1952: On the High Seas Wanted: Charlie the Tramp
- 1952: London An Admirable Ghost
- 1953: Washington Newsreel
- 1953: Washington The Witch Hunt
- 1953: Washington Portrait of a Witch Hunter
- 1953: Seattle Robeson
- 1953: Santiago de Cuba Fidel
- 1953: Santiago de Cuba The Accused Turns Prosecutor and Announces: “History Will Absolve Me”
- 1953: Boston United Fruit
- 1953: Guatemala City Arbenz
- 1953: San Salvador Dictator Wanted
- 1954: Washington The Deciding Machine, Piece by Piece
- 1954: Boston The Lie Machine, Piece by Piece
- 1954: Guatemala City The Reconquest of Guatemala
- 1954: Mazatenango Miguel at Forty-Nine
- 1954: Guatemala City Newsreel
- 1954: Rio de Janeiro Getulio
- 1955: Medellín Nostalgia
- 1955: Asunción Withdrawal Symptoms
- 1955: Guatemala City One Year after the Reconquest of Guatemala,
- 1956: Buenos Aires The Government Decides That Peronism Doesn’t Exist
- 1956: León Son of Somoza
- 1956: Santo Domingo In the Year Twenty-Six of the Trujillo Era
- 1956: Havana Newsreel
- 1956: At the Foot of the Sierra Maestro Twelve Lunatics
- 1957: Benidorm Marked Cards
- 1957: Majagual Colombia’s Sainted Egg
- 1957: Sucre Saint Lucío
- 1957: The Sinú River Banks Saint Domingo Vidal
- 1957: Pino del Agua Crucito
- 1957: El Uvero Almeida
- 1957: Santiago de Cuba Portrait of an Imperial Ambassador
- 1957: El Hombrito Che
- 1958: Stockholm Pelé
- 1958: Stockholm Garrincha
- 1958: Sierra Maestra The Revolution Is an Unstoppable Centipede
- 1958: Yaguajay Camilo
- 1959: Havana Cuba Wakes Up Without Batista
- 1959: Havana Portrait of a Caribbean Casanova
- 1959: Havana “We have only won the right to begin,”
- 1960: Brasília A City, or Delirium in the Midst of Nothing
- 1960: Rio de Janeiro Niemeyer
- 1960: Rio de Janeiro Guimaraes Rosa
- 1960: Artemisa Thousands and Thousands of Machetes
- 1961: Santo Domingo In the Year Thirty-One of the Trujillo Era
- 1961: Santo Domingo Defunctisimo
- 1961: Bay of Pigs Against the Wind,
- 1961: Playa Girón The Second U.S. Military Defeat in Latin America
- 1961: Havana Portrait of the Past
- 1961: Washington Who Invaded Cuba? A Dialogue in the U.S. Senate
- 1961: Havana María de la Cruz
- 1961: Punta del Este Latrine Diplomacy
- 1961: Escuinapa The Tale Spinner
- 1961: Sāo Salvador de Bahia Amado
- 1962: Cosalá One Plus One Is One
- 1962: Villa de Jesús María One Plus One Is All
- 1963: Bayamo Hurricane Flora
- 1963: Havana Everyone a Jack-of-All-Trades
- 1963: Havana Portrait of the Bureaucrat
- 1963: Havana Bola de Nieve
- 1963: Río Coco On His Shoulders He Carries the Embrace of Sandino,
- 1963: San Salvador Miguel at Fifty-Eight
- 1963: Dallas The Government Decides That Truth Doesn’t Exist
- 1963: Santo Domingo A Chronicle of Latin American Customs
- 1964: Panama Twenty-Three Boys Are Pumped Full of Lead
- 1964: Rio de Janeiro “There are dark clouds,”
- 1964: Juiz de Fora The Reconquest of Brazil
- 1964: La Paz Without Shame or Glory,
- 1964: North of Potosí With Savage Fury
- 1965: San Juan, Puerto Rico Bosch
- 1965: Santo Domingo Caamano
- 1965: Santo Domingo The Invasion
- 1965: Santo Domingo One Hundred Thirty-Two Nights
- 1965: Havana This Multiplier of Revolutions,
- 1966: Patiocemento “We know that hunger is mortal,”
- 1967: Llallagua The Feast of San Juan
- 1967: Catavi The Day After
- 1967: Catavi Domitila
- 1967: Catavi The God in the Stone
- 1967: On the Ñancahuazú River Banks Seventeen Men March to Annihilation
- 1967: Yuro Ravine The Fall of Che
- 1967: Higueras Bells Toll for Him
- 1967: La Paz Portrait of a Supermacho
- 1967: Estoril Society Notes
- 1967: Houston Ali
- 1968: Memphis Portrait of a Dangerous Man
- 1968: San Jose, California The Chicanos
- 1968: San Juan, Puerto Rico Albizu
- 1968: Mexico City The Students
- 1968: Mexico City Revueltas
- 1968: Banks of the River Yaqui The Mexican Revolution Isn’t There Anymore
- 1968: Mexico City Rulfo
- 1969: Lima Arguedas
- 1969: Sea of Tranquillity The Discovery of the Earth
- 1969: Bogotá The Urchins
- 1969: Any City Someone
- 1969: Rio de Janeiro Expulsion from the Slums
- 1969: Baixo Grande A Castle of Garbage
- 1969: Arque Pass The Last Stunt of Aviator Barrientos
- 1960: San Salvador and Tegucigalpa Two Turbulent Soccer Matches
- 1969: San Salvador and Tegucigalpa The Soccer War
- 1969: Port-au-Prince A Law Condemns to Death Anyone Who Says or Writes Red Words in Haiti
- 1970: Montevideo Portrait of a Torture Trainer
- 1970: Managua Rugama
- 1970: Santiago de Chile Landscape after Elections
- 1971: Santiago de Chile Donald Duck
- 1971: Santiago de Chile “Shoot at Fidel,”
- 1972: Managua Nicaragua, Inc.
- 1972: Managua Somoza’s Other Son
- 1972: Santiago de Chile Chile Trying to Be Born
- 1972: Santiago de Chile Portrait of a Multinational Company
- 1973: Santiago de Chile The Trap
- 1973: Santiago de Chile Allende
- 1973: Santiago de Chile Great Avenues Will Open Up, Announces Salvador Allende in His Final Message
- 1973: Santiago de Chile The Reconquest of Chile
- 1973: Santiago de Chile The Home of Allende
- 1973: Santiago de Chile The Home of Neruda
- 1973: Miami Sacred Consumerism Against the Dragon of Communism
- 1973: Recife Eulogy of Humiliation
- 1974: Brasília Ten Years after the Reconquest of Brazil
- 1974: Rio de Janeiro Chico
- 1974: Guatemala City Twenty Years after the Reconquest of Guatemala
- 1974: Forests of Guatemala The Quetzal
- 1974: Ixcán A Political Education Class in Guatemala
- 1974: Yoro Rain
- 1975: San Salvador Miguel at Seventy
- 1975: San Salvador Roque
- 1975: Amazon River Tropical Landscape
- 1975: Amazon River This Is the Father of All Rivers,
- 1975: Ribeirão Bonito A Day of Justice
- 1975: Huayanay Another Day of Justice
- 1975: Cuzco Condori Measures Time by Bread
- 1975: Lima Velasco
- 1975: Lima The Altarpieces of Huamanga
- 1975: Cabimas Vargas
- 1975: Salta Happy Colors of Change
- 1975: Buenos Aires Against the Children of Evita and Marx
- 1976: Madrid Onetti
- 1976: San José A Country Stripped of Words
- 1976: Liberty Forbidden Birds
- 1976: Montevideo Seventy-Five Methods of Torture,
- 1976: Montevideo “One Must Obey,” the New Official Texts Teach Uruguayan Students
- 1976: Montevideo The Head Shrinkers
- 1976: La Perla The Third World War
- 1976: Buenos Aires The Choice
- 1976: La Plata Bent over the Ruins, a Woman Looks
- 1976: Forest of Zinica Carlos
- 1977: Managua Tomás
- 1977: Solentiname Archipelago Cardenal
- 1977: Brasília Scissors
- 1977: Buenos Aires Walsh
- 1977: Río Cuarto The Burned Books of Walsh and Other Authors Are Declared Nonexistent
- 1977: Buenos Aires The Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo,
- 1977: Buenos Aires Alicia Moreau
- 1977: Buenos Aires Portrait of a Croupier
- 1977: Caracas The Exodus of the Intruders
- 1977: Graceland Elvis
- 1978: San Salvador Romero
- 1978: La Paz Five Women
- 1978: Managua “The Pigsty”
- 1978: Panama City: Torrijos
- 1979: Madrid Intruders Disturb the Quiet Ingestion of the Body of God
- 1979: New York Banker Rockefeller Congratulates Dictator Videla
- 1979: Siuna Portrait of a Nicaraguan Worker
- 1979: In All Nicaragua The Earth Buckles
- 1979: In All Nicaragua Get It Together, Everyone,
- 1979: Managua “Tourism must be stimulated,”
- 1979: Managua Somoza’s Grandson
- 1979: Granada The Comandantes
- 1979: In All Nicaragua Birth
- 1979: Paris Darcy
- 1979: Santiago de Chile Stubborn Faith
- 1979: Chajul Another Kind of Political Education in Guatemala
- 1980: La Paz The Cococracy
- 1980: Santa Ana de Yacuma Portrait of a Modern Businessman
- 1980: Santa Marta Marijuana
- 1980: Santa Marta Saint Agatón
- 1980: Guatemala City Newsreel
- 1980: Uspantán Rigoberta
- 1980: San Salvador The Offering
- 1980: Montevideo A People Who Say No
- 1980: In All Nicaragua On Its Way
- 1980: Asunción Stroessner
- 1980: In All Nicaragua Discovering
- 1980: New York The Statue of Liberty Seems Pitted with Smallpox
- 1980: New York Lennon
- 1981: Surahammar Exile
- 1981: Celica Canton “Bad Luck, Human Error, Bad Weather”
- 1982: South Georgia Islands Portrait of a Brave Fellow
- 1982: Malvinas Islands The Malvinas War,
- 1982: The Roads of La Mancha Master Globetrotter
- 1982: Stockholm Novelist García Márquez Receives the Nobel Prize and Speaks of Our Lands Condemned to One Hundred Years of Solitude
- 1983: St. George’s The Reconquest of the Island of Grenada
- 1983: La Bermuda Marianela
- 1983: Santiago de Chile Ten Years after the Reconquest of Chile
- 1983: A Ravine between Cabildo and Petorca Television
- 1983: Buenos Aires The Granny Detectives
- 1983: Lima Tamara Flies Twice
- 1983: Buenos Aires What If the Desert Were Ocean and the Earth Were Sky?
- 1983: Plateau of Petitions The Mexican Theater of Dreams
- 1983: Tuma River Realization
- 1983: Managua Defiance
- 1983: Mérida The People Set God on His Feet,
- 1983: Managua Newsreel
- 1984: The Vatican The Holy Office of the Inquisition
- 1984: London Gold and Frankincense
- 1984: Washington 1984
- 1984: Washington We Are All Hostages
- 1984: Sāo Paulo Twenty Years after the Reconquest of Brazil
- 1984: Guatemala City Thirty Years after the Reconquest of Guatemala,
- 1984: Rio de Janeiro Mishaps of Collective Memory in Latin America
- 1984: Mexico City Against Forgetting,
- 1984: Mexico City The Resurrection of the Living
- 1984: Estelí Believing
- 1984: Havana Miguel at Seventy-Nine
- 1984: Paris The Echoes Go Searching for the Voice
- 1984: Punta Santa Elena The Eternal Embrace
- 1984: Violeta Parra Community The Stolen Name
- 1984: Tepic The Found Name
- 1984: Bluefields Flying
- 1986: Montevideo A Letter
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- About the Author
- About the Translator
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