The Simgle Most Important Literary Voice to Come Out of Latin America in
Recent Times; Born in Uruguay in 1940, Eduardo Galeano is the celebrated author
of the monumental trilogy Memory of Fire, a revisionary history of the
Americas, and of the ground-breaking Open Veins of Latin America, the first
serious revisionary analysis of Latin American History. Despite being Latin
America's leading voice on issues of human rights, Galeano has been largely
ignored as a figure worthy of critical notice. Eduardo Galeano is the first
full-length biography and critical study of his life and examines all the
events that have shaped his writing - from his close personal friendship with
Allende, through the dictatorships in Uruguay and Argentina that forced him
into exile, to the ongoing relationship between Galeano and Subcomandante
Marcos, leader of the Chiapas rebellion. The book also contains a great deal of
new materials gathered from exclusive interviews with Galeano himself.