Eduardo Galeano

Eduardo Hughes Galeano (3 September 1940 – 13 April 2015) was a Uruguayan journalist, writer and novelist. His best-known works are "Las venas abiertas de América Latina" (Open Veins of Latin America, 1971) and "Memoria del fuego" (Memory of Fire Trilogy, 19826).
Galeano died in Montevideo, Uruguay from lung cancer, aged 74."