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To Hugo Chávez

By Eduardo Galeano (Posted Dec 13, 2012)

Eduardo Galeano is a writer. Translation by Yoshie Furuhashi (@yoshiefuruhashi | yoshie.furuhashi [at] gmail.com).

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