Eduardo Galeano
Eduardo Hughes Galeano was an Uruguayan journalist, writer and novelist considered, among other things, global soccers preeminent man of letters and a literary giant of the Latin American left.
Eduardo Germn Mara Hughes Galeano was born in Montevideo, Uruguay, on Sept. 3, 1940. His two family names were inherited from Welsh and Genoese greatgrandfathers the other two were from Germany and Spain. Galeano wrote under his maternal family name as young man, he briefly wrote for an Uruguayan socialist publication, El Sol, signing articles as Gius, a pseudonym approximating the pronunciation in Spanish of his paternal surname Hughes. Galeanos family belonged to the fallen Uruguayan aristocracy Galeano himself went to work at fourteen, having completed just two years of secondary school.
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