Eduardo Galeano

Writer, journalist

1940–2015

Uruguayan

Regions: Uruguay, Latin America

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Eduardo Galeano was a Uruguayan journalist, writer, and novelist whose work focused on the political and economic history of Latin America. His most famous work, Open Veins of Latin America (1971), became a landmark text synthesizing the history of exploitation and resource extraction across the continent.