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Eduardo Galeano (1940-2015) was a Uruguayan journalist and writer, one of the leading figures in 20th century Latin American literature. He was born in Montevideo on September 3, 1940 and found himself journalizing from an early age having dropped out of school. "My university was the Montevideo cafes and the discussion of the guests," he said in an interview. He started his journalistic career at the age of 14, in the newspaper of the socialist party where he sketched caricatures while until then he had managed to work as a worker, oil painter, postman. In the early 60's he became the editor of the weekly magazine "Martsa", and the editor-in-chief of the newspaper "Epoka". In 1971 he became famous for his two-volume work "The Open Veins of Latin America" ​​on the economic strangulation of Latin America by the colonialists. During the June 1973 coup, he was imprisoned and then exiled to Argentina, where he published the magazine "Crisis". After the 1976 coup in Argentina he was forced to move to Barcelona where he wrote his famous trilogy, "Memories of Fire", in 1984.

Other works that stand out from his rich ethnography are "A World Upside Down", a series of essays on the age of globalization, "The Thousand Faces of Football" where, among other things, he attacks the left-wing intellectuals who reject football for ideological reasons, the "Mirrors" : An almost world story "from the point of view of the losers and the weak, through 600 stories.

He married three times and had 3 children by his first two wives. He died on April 13, 2015, in a hospital in Montevideo, where he was treated for lung cancer.