Eduardo Galeano
1940 – 2015 Uruguayan journalist, writer
The writer whose Open Veins of Latin America popularized the region's story of extraction and dependency.
- Affiliations
- Latin American left intellectual circles
Eduardo Galeano was a Uruguayan journalist and writer whose 1971 book Open Veins of Latin America traced five centuries of foreign plunder of the region's resources. Written for a wide audience, it became a defining popular statement of dependency and anti-imperialist thought. Galeano later said he had outgrown the book's rigid framework, but it remained hugely influential.