Eduardo Galeano

Eduardo Galeano was born on 3 September 1940 in Montevideo. He left school early and worked from the age of fourteen, publishing his first political cartoons in the socialist weekly El Sol. Editor-in-chief of the weekly Marcha, then director of the daily Época, he was imprisoned after the coup d'état of 1973 and went into exile in Argentina, where he founded the magazine Crisis. Threatened after the Argentine coup d'état of 1976, he left for Spain and returned to Montevideo only in 1985. He died there on 13 April 2015, aged seventy-four.

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• EssayOpen Veins of Latin AmericaLas venas abiertas de América LatinaEduardo Galeano · 1971Literature