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April 13, 2015 10:49 AM   Subscribe

Eduardo Galeano, Uruguayan writer, has died.
After the 1973 military coup in Uruguay, Galeano was imprisoned and forced to leave the country. He settled in Argentina where he founded and edited a cultural magazine, Crisis. After the 1976 military coup there, Galeano’s name was added to the lists of those condemned by the death squads. He moved to Spain where he began his classic work "Memory of Fire," a three-volume narrative of the history of America, North and South.
Galeano was both an important anti-capitalist voice and a writer who chronicled the history of the Americas from the perspective of the Americas. While The Open Veins of Latin America is more often referred to by English-language press, his Memory of Fire Trilogy leaves a long imprint as well. posted by migrantology (1 comment total)

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