Uruguayan author and journalist Eduardo Galeano has died. He was 74 years-old.
Galeano was the author of dozens of books both fiction and nonfiction, most of which dealt with the imperialist history in Latin America. Former Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez gave President Barack Obama a copy of his popular book “Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent” in 2009, after which book sales soared.
Galeano’s most recent work, published in 2012, was “Children of the Days: A Calendar of Human History.” The title is a short story collection about human survival set in various days of dictators.