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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).

Catastrophism — Left, Right, and Center

David Ravelo and the Fight for Colombia

Also by Eduardo Galeano

Eduardo Galeano on Open Veins of Latin America . . . and Other Stories by Cynara Menezes, Eduardo Galeano May 28, 2014
To Hugo Chávez by Eduardo Galeano December 13, 2012
Interview with Eduardo Galeano: "Two Centuries of Workers' Conquests, Cast Into a Dustbin" by Eduardo Galeano, Paula Vilella July 25, 2012
The Magic Kingdom by Eduardo Galeano July 15, 2010

Also By Eduardo Galeano in Monthly Review Magazine

Magic Death for a Magic Life November 01, 2007

Books By Eduardo Galeano

Days and Nights of Love and War September 30, 1996
Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent December 31, 1992

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