Internationally awarded Uruguayan author and journalist Eduardo Galeano died Monday of lung cancer at age 75 in Montevideo, the capital of Uruguay.
The writer of about 35 books, including the “Open Veins of Latin America,” (Las Venas Abiertas de América Latina)which became a best-seller overnight after the late President Hugo Chavez handed the book over to his U.S. counterpart Barack Obama during the fifth Summit of the Americas in 2009, was born Sept. 3, 1940.
“He was a poet of history or a poetic historian,” said Uruguayan Senator and former President Jose Mujica on Tuesday, and that the world owes a great debt to the recently departed intellectual and author, Eduardo Galeano.
“Galeano went searching for hidden truths and he travelled throughout the parts of America with the greatest suffering, that part which neither books nor the academy ever reaches,” said Mujica.
Galeano, who died Monday at age 74, was honored in his home country Tuesday with a wake ceremony at the Uruguayan Legislative Palace.
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