Eduardo Galeano

September 3, 1940 (85 years old)

Place of Birth: Montevideo, Uruguay

Biography

Eduardo Hughes Galeano was a Uruguayan journalist, writer and novelist considered, among other things, "a literary giant of the Latin American left" and "global soccer's pre-eminent man of letters". Galeano's best-known works are 'Las venas abiertas de América Latina' and 'Memoria del fuego'.