“This catalog of crimes and absurdities has both the acidity of Jonathan Swift and his dark humor. Who else can make the skeletons dance the way Galeano does?”
— The New Yorker
“Full of empathy, candor, unsettling connections…Galeano is serious but far from deadly….From the Internet to Interpol, from the vapidity of television to auto-itis, nothing is safe from his committed deconstructions.”
— The New York Times Book Review
“Galeano uses his craft to invade the reader’s mind, to persuade him or her to surrender to the charm of his writing and the power of his idealism.”
— Isabel Allende, author of My Invented Country