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2006:

  1. A conversation about Latin America with guest host Julia Sweig and Eduardo Galeano
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Eduardo Hughes Galeano is a Uruguayan journalist whose books have been translated into many languages.

He started his career as a journalist in the early 1960s as editor of Marcha, an influential weekly journal which had such contributors as Mario Vargas Llosa, Mario Benedetti, Manuel Maldonado Denis and Roberto Fernández Retamar. For two years he edited the daily Época and worked as editor-in-chief of the University Press.

Galeano’s most famous works include “Las venas abiertas de América Latina” (The Open Veins of Latin America), “Memoria del fuego” (Memory of Fire), and “The Book of Embraces”.

Galeano is a regular contributor to The Progressive and the New Internationalist, and has also been published in the Monthly Review and The Nation.

Source-Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eduardo_Galeano