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Eduardo Galeano

Died on April 13, 2015

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Eduardo Germán María Hughes Galeano (Spanish:; 3 September 1940 – 13 April 2015) was a Uruguayan journalist, writer and novelist considered, among other things, "a literary giant of the Latin American left" and "global soccer's pre-eminent man of letters".

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