Eduardo Galeano: Latin America’s poet-historian

Eduardo Galeano: Latin America’s poet-historian

A man sits at a dark wooden table in a bar in the old city of Montevideo, Uruguay. The bar is old. Historic. It’s been around for more than a hundred years. And it looks it.  The decor hasn’t changed much since the 1870s. Wooden walls. Wooden tables. Italian chairs. The bar is called the Cafe Brasileiro. And it was a favorite of more than a few Uruguayan poets and writers.  Mario Benedetti, Idea Vilariño, José Enrique Rodó. They say Juan Carlos …

Eduardo Galeano's closeness with Mexico, through his attentive look at figures of our country and the affection of his Mexican readers, marked the tribute that at noon this Sunday was given to the Uruguayan writer and journalist at the Palacio de Bellas Artes, in a Manuel M. Ponce room overflowed by admirers of this figure of left-wing thinking in Latin America.

The truth is that I do not remember the month (it will have been February or March 1973) and neither the name of the Uruguayan journalist to whom I delivered a very fat text with news about the cruelty of the Brazilian dictatorship of that time, for him to distribute it to newspapers all over the world. The post Ten years without Eduardo Galeano first appeared on Cubadebate.

I was a boy, almost a child, and I wanted to draw. Eduardo Galeano ("Window on Art II", from The Walking Words) Eduardo Galeano always expressed his passion for drawing in childhood. In the Encuentro channel of Argentina, he conjured this synthesis: "When I was a boy I liked books with figurines, that is, books of pure letters seemed to me very boring, and from there I think it came to me, going through the times, the days and the years, this ma…

Uruguayan Eduardo Galeano: Ten Years On, A Legacy Remembered

Ten years after the passing of Eduardo Galeano, the beloved Uruguayan journalist and writer, friends and family look back on his vibrant spirit—complete with piglet-collecting quirks and painterly barbecues—and reflect on how his generous soul continues to inspire today. A Man of Piglets and Painterly Feasts Eduardo Galeano’s life was a tapestry of literary brilliance … The post Uruguayan Eduardo Galeano: Ten Years On, A Legacy Remembered appear…