Eduardo Galeano

Born 3 September 1940 in Montevideo, Uruguay

Died 13 April 2015 (aged 74)

Eduardo Hughes Galeano was a Uruguayan journalist, writer and novelist considered, among other things, "a literary giant of the Latin American left" and "global soccer's pre-eminent man of letters". Galeano's best-known works are 'Las venas abiertas de América Latina' and 'Memoria del fuego'.