the writer is Journalist Eduardo Hughes Galeano was a great Uruguayan libertarian percussionist in Brazilian literature, he created more than forty works of great literary reference, his books are based on the right to reflect and feel and have mixtures of journalist front, orthodox genres, political reality, fiction and story.
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Eduardo Germán Maria Hughes, the writer's given name, was born in Montevideo, Uruguay, on September 3, 1940. Germán preferred only to sign Eduardo Galeano, to make his identification and signature on his literary works more practical. Eduardo came from a family that had a stable financial life and was extremely religious.
The writer has always had numerous dreams during his life, especially in childhood, among them was the desire to be a player of football, but over time he realized that it was not quite what he imagined, during a certain period he wrote a lot about the subject matter. Already in his teens, at the age of 14, he produced a solidarity drawing for the newspaper “El Sol”, the newspaper was delighted with Eduardo's skill in to draw and gave him the position of cartoonist, the newspaper was part of the socialist party, in addition, Galeano was willing to do a variety of activities, such as a bank teller and typist.
During his adolescence the writer suffered several existential crises, and at the age of 19 he tried to commit suicide, he never explained the reasons for such an act, the fact is that the writer went into a coma and became hospitalized days after this event, Eduardo opened his eyes to his reality and desires, and began to recognize himself as Eduardo Galeano, thus allowing him to discover new paths and possibilities, it was in the Jornal Marcha that he saw the hope of engaging in literature once and for all, and he started writing for the newspaper, being a true learning school at the beginning of his careers. construction.
In sentimental life, Galeano already had some relationships, it was in these relationships that he had 3 children, for some time he came to know his wife at a barbecue, a person who spent 40 years of her life, called Helena, met Helena amidst the chaos that was Argentina, as we will see in follow.
During his lifetime, he was persecuted a lot by the Uruguayan military regime, mainly because he published the book of greatest success of his entire literary career, “The Open Veins of Latin America” (1971), the work portrays and makes reference to left. As early as 1973, Eduardo was arrested in front of the military coup scenario in his country. he was exiled to Argentina, where in the meantime he launched the cultural style magazine called "Crisis". Unfortunately, the country of Argentina was also suffering from military attacks in the face of the 1976 dictatorship, Galeano realized that he could no longer remain there, meeting his wife Helena, as mentioned.
With the persecution in their literary works, books were extremely banned in Uruguay, Argentina and Chile, Faced with this fact, Galeano went into exile to Spain, it was in this country that he wrote his trilogy of fire memoirs. (1982). Galeano showed all his persistence, determination and mainly because he wrote this work on pieces of napkin cloth.
Finally Galeano returned to Uruguay, his hometown, in 1985, founding the then newspaper called “Brecha”, he used to frequent the Café Brasileiro very often, a place that many poets used to go to discuss his works and have a good coffee, a brilliant curiosity, is that the establishment nowadays sells a coffee in his honor, called “Café Galeano”.
Galeano always liked to be involved in political issues and movements, so much so that in 2004 he was part of political groups and left-wing intellectuals of the time.
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Unfortunately, a great legacy for literary history leaves its admirers and readers more faithful, on April 13, 2015, Galeano dies, the same faced major health problems, and in 2007, doctors identified a serious lung cancer, with this fact his health only deteriorated, being less and less seen by the public. Galeano left us with only 74 years of age, leaving a history of resistance, political ideals and persistence.
"We live in the full culture of appearance: the marriage contract matters more than love, the funeral more than the dead, the clothes more than the body, and the Mass more than God."
“In Latin America, freedom of expression consists of the right to mumble on some radio or newspapers with little circulation. Books don't need to be banned by the police: prices already prohibit them.”
"It doesn't matter where I came from, but where I want to go."
"The system, which does not give food, nor does it give to love: it condemns many to hunger for bread and many more to hunger for hugs."
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