“I think the main reason for the book’s endurance and significance was the combination of theme and style. In many interviews, Galeano declared that Open Veins was an unpretentious book, the outcome of his own need to dive into our America’s history and to fully understand it. Eduardo’s book is essential not only to understand Latin America but to understand life and the world”, asserts Brazilian writer and translator of many of Galeano’s texts to Portuguese, Eric Nepomuceno. “Eduardo has broken with all boundaries of style. A poetic, colloquial prose, deep historical research. A thorough journalistic investigation with historical data, anthropology, myths, and popular wisdom, the author’s narrative leads the reader into a path of worldly realities along with sublime experiences The book tells the history of exploitation in the continent whose richness has been bled dry since the 15th century. However, as Galeano himself wrote, life is made of “breath and despair” and April is also the month we celebrate the 50 years of Open Veins of Latin America, his first success, which was translated to over 20 languages. The Uruguayan journalist and writer of 33 books passed away six years ago of lung cancer.

Eduardo Galeano’s work celebrates half a century shedding light on the realities of Latin American peoplesĪpril may be seen as a month of mourning, as every April 13th since 2015 marks another year since Eduardo Galeano’s departure.

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