He began his journalistic career at 14 years old, publishing a caricature in the Socialist Party's weekly newspaper El Sol. He was known for chronicling the deep injustices of Latin America, but also for his love affair with the region's contrasts and culture, including a deep passion for football.īorn September 3, 1940, Galeano never finished high school, but learned the writing craft hanging out in Montevideo's old cafes, he said. Galeano's work blended genres, including journalism, fiction, essays and the drawings he used to illustrate works such as The Book of Embraces, a collection of vignettes charged with politics, flawed humanity and lyrical prose. Galeano, whose 1971 essay Open Veins of Latin America is considered by many leftists to be the seminal history of the region, was hospitalised last week in the Uruguayan capital Montevideo, said officials at the CASMU hospital. Uruguayan writer Eduardo Galeano, the iconic Latin American leftist who chronicled the region's injustices in a career that spanned decades and crossed genres, has died at the age of 74.
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