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Canadian keeper Lars Hirschfeld doesn’t dive so much as topple. The ball rolls past him: tie game. The Voyageurs shriek obscenities into the muggy night. While the players reorganize on the field, I recall a line by Uruguayan dissident Eduardo Galeano.
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As historian Eduardo Galeano explains, Latin American economies were designed to be dependent on Europe. This dependency continued, as a well-entrenched political construct, deep into the 19th and 20th centuries. In large part, the United States became...
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Uruguayan journalist Eduardo Galeano (3L), author of ' Open Veins of Latin America' poses with Cuban students after his press conference at Onelio Jorge Cardoso Center, on January 13, 2012 in Havana. View Photo »
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I believe this reading by Eduardo Galeano is very interesting. Eduardo Galeano, the Uruguayan intellectual, writer and novelist, describes himself as being obsessed with remembering and committed to humanity and just causes. I agree with him.
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So it's not that a boring game is purer than an entertaining game or that there's something moral about enduring tedium (although I know fans who might make that argument). I watch soccer to be amazed. One of my favorite books about fandom is Soccer in...
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It is a curious paradox that Menem, the Argentine president most eulogised by the IMF, is also a Justicialist, that is a Peronist. He belongs to the party that created the welfare state in Argentina. As the Uruguay writer Eduardo Galeano put it to me,...
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And in these lines that I send you now, Don Luis, palpitate deaths that are lives. I.- The power of Power. “The freedom of election lets you choose the salsa with which you will be eaten.” Eduardo Galeano. “Ventana sobre las Dictaduras Invisibles” Ibid.
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Uruguayan journalist, writer and novelist Eduardo Galeano gives a speech during a press conference with Cuban students at Onelio Jorge Cardoso Center, in Havana, Cuba on January 13, 2012. Galeano's best known work is Memoria del fuego. View Photo »
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If ever the uninhibited joy of children playing merged with raw competitive dominance, it was in the squad that Socrates led to the World Cup in Spain. They embodied Eduardo Galeano’s description of Brazilian soccer as “…. the most beautiful soccer in...
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Eduardo Galeano wrote the Open Veins of Latin America four decades ago, he wrote of a continent mired in oppression and of a political, economic and social process that excluded the majority of its citizens. Today, something very different is taking place.
About Eduardo Galeano
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Eduardo Hughes Galeano (born September 3, 1940) is an Uruguayan journalist whose books have been translated into many languages. His works transcend orthodox genres, combining documentary, fiction, journalism, political analysis, and history. The author himself has denied that he is a historian: "I'm a writer obsessed with remembering, with... Full Article
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Uruguayan writer Eduardo Galeano speaks during the first Mario Benedetti Foundation international Human Rights prize ceremony in Montevideo on September 14, 2011. US Leonard Peltier, an indigenous Human Rights activist jailed in the United States for decades, received the prize.
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Uruguayan writer Eduardo Galeano (C), musician Daniel Viglietti (R) and Mario Benedetti Foundation's treasurer Ricardo Elena (L), take part in the first Mario Benedetti Foundation international Human Rights prize ceremony in Montevideo on September 14, 2011. US Leonard Peltier (on...
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Uruguayan writer Eduardo Galeano (L) is accompanied by the Mexico City Head of Government Marcelo Ebrard at the ceremony where the author of 'Open Veins of Latin America' received the honorary diploma and medal 1808 in commemoration of the bicentennial of Mexican Independence and the Centenary...
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Uruguayan writer Eduardo Galeano stands inside the municipal palace in Mexico City February 22, 2011. Galeano, author of "Open Veins of Latin America," received a condecoration in recognition of his career as a writer, journalist, and historian.
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Uruguayan writer Eduardo Galeano gestures while addressing the audience at the municipal palace in Mexico City February 22, 2011. Galeano, author of "Open Veins of Latin America," received a condecoration in recognition of his career as a writer, journalist, and historian.
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Uruguayan writer Eduardo Galeano (R) speaks during the ceremony where he was granted with the honor diploma and medal 1808 in commemoration of the bicentennial of Mexican Independence and the Centenary of the Mexican Revolution by the Mexico city government on February 22, 2011 in Mexico...
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Uruguayan writer Eduardo Galeano shows the honor diploma and medal 1808 in commemoration of the bicentennial of Mexican Independence and the Centenary of the Mexican Revolution at the ceremony where the author of 'Open Veins of Latin America' was granted by the Mexico city government on...
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Uruguayan writer Eduardo Galeano speaks during the first Mario Benedetti Foundation international Human Rights prize ceremony in Montevideo on September 14, 2011. US Leonard Peltier, an indigenous Human Rights activist jailed in the United States for decades, received the prize.
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