Eduardo Galeano Died At 74 | Eduardo Galeano Dead | Eduardo Galeano Wiki | Eduardo Galeano Profile

Eduardo Galeano Died At 74 | Eduardo Galeano Dead | Eduardo Galeano Wiki | Eduardo Galeano Profile

Award-winning Uruguayan writer Eduardo Galeano and leading leftwing intellectual has died and he was 74. Galeano was best known for his 1971 anti-imperialist work, "Open Veins of Latin America," which details Latin America's exploitation at the hands of foreign powers, beginning with Spanish colonization five centuries ago and continuing to the present with the United States.

The book went on to become a rallying cry among leftist circles and was banned during periods of military leadership in Chile, Argentina and Uruguay. A recent edition included an introduction by novelist Isabel Allende, who once said the book was one of the few items she brought along when she fled Chile after the military coup in 1973.

His work inspired several generations of Latin Americans with acerbic descriptions of the continent's exploitation by capitalist and imperialist forces. In 2013, speaking to the Guardian about his latest book Children of the Days, Galeano detailed a world where power and wealth were becoming increasingly concentrated in the hands of a few, weaving in examples from the 15th century to the present day. “History never really says goodbye,” he said at the time. “History said, see you later"