![]() ![]() He lived in Argentina and then Spain until 1985, when he returned to Uruguay. Eduardo Galeano was briefly jailed, then went into exile. In June 1973, 40 years ago next month, a military junta seized power in a coup in Uruguay. Since its publication in 1971, the Open Veins of Latin America has sold over a million copies worldwide, despite being banned in the 1970s by the military governments in Chile, Argentina and in his native country of Uruguay. He is the author of the best-selling book, Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent, which made headlines when then-Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez gave President Obama a copy at the Summit of the Americas in 2009. ![]() NERMEEN SHAIKH: We spend the rest of the hour with one of Latin America’s most acclaimed writers, Eduardo Galeano. ![]()
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