[Curiosities] Galeano: journalism and sentiment at the command of the nobodies

[Noticias ALEJANDRO]

This Saturday, April 13, marks eight years since the death of the writer and journalist Eduardo Galeano, who died at the age of 74 in his country of origin Uruguay, due to lung cancer that was diagnosed in 2007.
Galeano began his literary career behind his signature "Gius." At the age of 14 he sold his first political cartoon to the weekly Sol, of the Socialist Party in Uruguay. In 1960 he became editor of the weekly Marcha and later directed the newspaper Época for two years.

In 1973 he fled to the neighboring country, Argentina, after writing The Open Veins of Latin America in 1971, banned under the dictatorships of Uruguay, Argentina and Chile, leading him to prison before his exile.

 

 

During his career he subtly mixed journalism, poetry in its manifestation of feeling and the depth of social processes in a timely and powerful narrative, which reached the hands of prominent presidents and added several awards to his record.

His works, translated into more than 20 languages, went around the world. Inspired by the revolutionary climate that marked the 60s and 70s of the last century and that show realities that persist today.

Five of his poems enliven the history of the majorities that have been reduced for centuries, and fill with hope the resistance that is represented in each of his lyrics.

 

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