On April 13, 2015, the Uruguayan writer and journalist Eduardo Galeano died. Thus ended the transfer of a rescuer of the memory and dignity of Latin America and the world, fustigator of the looting of the resources of the region and companion of the leftist struggles.
For the tenth lucid anniversary of the first cartoonist and then articulist of The daytributes will be made in Spain on Wednesday, with the participation of the singer, composer and poet Joan Manuel Serrat and the chronicler and narrator Martín Caparrós; In Mexico, it will be read at the Palace of Fine Arts part of his work on Sunday.
21st century, which has in its catalog the Eduardo Galeano Library, made up of 22 titles, will organize the activity in the Mexican Cultural Enclosure and announced that this year will launch a new book of Galeano, titled tentatively Incomplete history of Mexico.
In Fine Arts, fragments of the influential left writer about essential characters in the history of Mexico (Sr. Juana Inés de la Cruz, Frida Kahlo, José Revueltas and José Clemente Orozco) will be read, in addition to one of his favorite texts: The right to delirium
which is part of the book Above: the world school school.
The actress Bárbara Mori and the pianist María Teresa Frenk will participate in the activity; Santiago Wins Arnabal, Ambassador of Uruguay in Mexico, and Rocío Martínez Velázquez, editorial director of the 21st century will also attend.
Editor Rocío Martínez and journalists Luis Hernández Navarro and Javier Aranda Luna will participate in the talk Eduardo Galeano and journalism
in the caffeiring the pendulum (Álvaro Obregón 86, Colonia Roma Norte), on Tuesday, April 22, at 7:00 p.m., as part of a cycle of meetings convened by the 21st century editors.
Eduardo Germán María Hughes Galeano was born on September 3, 1940 in Montevideo, Uruguay. In his childhood he wanted to be a cure or footballer. Although he retained his sports hobby, he recalled later that he lost God when he was 12 or 13 years old.
Elena Poniatowska wrote, on the occasion of the narrator’s death: I have a lot to thank Eduardo Galeano, his words, his conferences in Fine Arts and at the National Autonomous University of Mexico, the immense wave of enthusiasm, almost like a tsunami that raised his presence among young people who applauded him standing and now express his penalty for the loss of an intellectual who always remained next to the little
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At 14 he published his first cartoon in the Uruguayan Socialist Weekly The sununder the pseudonym Giosin addition to writing in the same publication on various topics. After abandoning formal education, it became self -taught; He worked as a worker from an insecticide factory, he was typing and banker apprentice; Writing Secretary of the legendary weekly Marchdirected by Carlos Quijano, and spent time at the house of the Uruguayan writer Juan Carlos Onetti. In 1963 he published his first book, the novel The following days.
The open veins of Latin America
In 1971 it appeared The open veins of Latin America. The work received honorary mention of the Casa de las Américas Award. After spending a unnoticed time, it became such an important title that it was prohibited by dictatorships installed in the 70s and 80s in Uruguay, Chile and Argentina.
In the introduction of The open veins …, entitled One hundred and twenty million children in the center of the storm
Galeano said that it is a recovery of The defeated heroes and the revolutions of our day, the infamies and the dead and resurrect hopes: the fruitful sacrifices
.
Emphasized that The story is a prophet with his eyes turned back: for what he was, and against what he was, he announces what it will be. That is why this book offers a looting story and at the same time tells how the current mechanisms of dispossession work
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Persecuted, he had to exile twice, the first in 1973 in Argentina, where he was offered to direct the magazine Crisisin which other legendary figures, such as Juan Gelman, Rodolfo Walsh, Mario Benedetti and Gabriel García Márquez; Then towards Spain.
Galeano was a collaborator of The day In the 90s with short stories in the column Windowswhich was published on Sundays and then compiled some in the book Mouths of time (2004).
Juan Rulfo was considered and told this newspaper in mid -2008: Yes, I write my way, which is in turn a very influenced way by my teacher Juan Rulfo. In an interview, some time ago, they asked me to choose the most important writers in my literary training. I replied: Juan Rulfo, Juan Rulfo and Juan Rulfo
.
Galeano published more than 40 books, some of them were translated into 29 languages.
Eduardo Galeano
The ducks
Why do ducks fly in V?
The first that raises flight opens the way to the second, which clears the air to the third, and the energy of the third rise to the fourth, which helps the fifth, and the impulse of the fifth pushes the sixth, and thus, lending strength on the shared flight, the many ducks go up and sailing, together, in the high sky.
When the duck that is tired, goes down to the tail of the flock and leaves its place to another duck. Everyone turns, back and forward, and none is repeated overpats for flying, or subpatus for breastfeeding.
And when some, exhausted, stays on the road, two ducks leave the group and accompany and wait for it, until it recovers or falls.
Juan Díaz Bordenave is not a pathologist, but in his long life he has seen a lot of flight. He continues to believe, against all evidence, that the united ducks will never be defeated.
The dayApril 2, 2000
Eduardo Galeano
The stars
And they, do we spy on us? Those glows of the night, are they eyes that night to look at us?
Or are mouths? Open mouths for astonishment, which tremble with fear? Astronomers do not dare to say it, but the most recent investigations have proven that the stars are increasingly stunned and trembling. They go from stupor to panic: they fail to understand how it continues to spin, still alive, this our world, so fervently dedicated to their own annihilation, where there is nothing more profitable than crime or anything more successful than stupidity, and shudder in fright, because they have seen that we already invade other stars of heaven.
The day14
November 1998