He died the Uruguayan writer Eduardo Galeano – publico

                 

                         
                     

                 

 
                         

The Uruguayan writer Eduardo Galeano, best known for classic Veins of Latin America (published in Portugal in 1998 by Dinosaur), died on Monday at age 74 in Montevideo. Galeano had been hospitalized on Friday as a result of complications associated with lung cancer, for which he had already received treatment in 2007.

                     

                         Journalist turned writer, Galeano has published about 40 books, but his most famous title is Veins of Latin America , published in 1971, when the author was 31 years old. The book is a historical and political analysis of Latin America since European settlement to the present day, openly criticizing the exploitation and European and North American intervention in that continent. The book has become a cult work of the Latin American left, has been banned in Uruguay, Argentina, Chile and Brazil during the period of military dictatorships in those countries in the 1970s and 1980s.

2000 in an interview with New York Times , described Veins of Latin America as an economic policy book “written in the style of a novel of love or pirates.” In recent years, the writer distanced himself from the book, describing it as a youthful work, simplistic. “I would not be able to read it again. Would fall unconscious, “said one years ago, during the Book Biennial of Brasilia. “For me, this prose of the traditional left is chatíssima. My physical could not stand. It would be admitted in the emergency room. “

In April 2009, the first diplomatic visit of the newly elected Barack Obama to Latin America, the then President of Venezuela Hugo Chavez offered him a copy of Veins Latin America . It was a challenging act carefully choreographed to embarrass the President of the United States. Obama, graceful, later commented: “It was a nice gesture to offer me a book – because I am a reader.” However, one of his aides noted that hardly the American president would read the book, because Chavez offered a copy in Spanish .

Asked about this episode, Galeano said that “neither Obama nor Chavez understand the text,” according to the El País. Chavez “offered it to Obama with the best intention of world, but in a language that Obama does not know. It was a generous gesture, but a little cruel. “

Eduardo Galeano was arrested in 1973, when a military coup took power in Uruguay. The writer managed to escape and go into exile in Argentina, but in 1976 a military dictatorship settles there and Galeano refuge in Spain, where he remained until 1985. In that year, democracy returned to Uruguay and Galeano returned to settle in his hometown. . To death

Besides Veins of Latin America, Portugal are translated the following works of Galeano: legged on Air (Path), Football: Sun and Shadow (Sand Books), Parrot Resurrection Story (children’s book, with illustrations, published by Kalandraka) and Fire Memory (Sand Books ).