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- One of Latin America’s most acclaimed writers, Eduardo Galeano, died on Monday
at age 74 in Montevideo, Uruguay. The Uruguayan novelist and journalist made
headlines when Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez gave President Obama a copy of
his classic work, "The Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the
Pillage of a Continent." Since its publication in 1971, "Open Veins" has sold
more than a million copies worldwide, despite being banned by the military
governments in Chile, Argentina and his native country of Uruguay. While in
exile after the Uruguayan military junta seized power in a 1973 coup, Galeano
began work on his classic trilogy "Memory of Fire," which rewrites five
centuries of North and South American history. He also authored "Soccer in Sun
and Shadow," "Upside Down," "The Book of Embraces," "We Say No," "Voices of
Time," "Mirrors," "Children of the Days: A Calendar of Human History," among
others.
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