Uruguayan Writer Eduardo Galeano Dies at 74

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Known for decades as an eloquent and impassioned spokesman for the Latin American left, the Uruguayan writer Eduardo Galeano has died in Montevideo at age 74 after suffering a long bout with lung cancer. The author of the landmark 1971 polemic The Open Veins of Latin America, considered by many leftists as one of the most important histories ever written about the region, Galeano also published numerous other works of fiction and nonfiction, including the famed Ring of Fire trilogy and, more recently, Soccer in Sun and Shadow, a book about the sport he loved.

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