Eduardo Galeano
- Born
- 3 September 1940 (74 years old)
- Passed away
- 13 April 2015
- Place of birth
- Montevideo, Uruguay
- Gender
- Male
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'.
