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Galeano: The Life and Death of Words, People, and Even Nature
Znet Article, May, 01 2013
Eduardo Galeano
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From Walking Libraries and a God Named “Word” to What Sherlock Holmes Never Said
Galeano: "Two Centuries of Workers' Conquests, Cast Into a Dustbin"
Znet Article, July, 27 2012
Eduardo Galeano
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"The grandeur of humanity lies in small things, quotidian things, done every day, what's done by the nameless without knowing that they are doing it"
Galeano: I Hate to Bother You
Znet Article, September, 05 2009
Eduardo Galeano
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I’d like to share with you some questions--some flies that keep buzzing in my head.
Galeano: Operation Unpunished Lead
Znet Article, January, 18 2009
Eduardo Galeano
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To justify itself, state terrorism manufactures terrorists: it sows hate and harvests alibis. Everything indicates that this slaughterhouse of Gaza, which according to its perpetrators is for finishing off the terrorists, will achieve boosting them.
Galeano: Hopes and Fears
Znet Article, November, 11 2008
Eduardo Galeano
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Once in office, will Obama prove that his bellicose threats against Iran and Pakistan were just words spoken to lure in a certain category of voter during the election? Let's hope so. And let's hope he isn't for a moment tempted to repeat the expl...
Galeano: Latin America A Kingdom of Paradoxes
Znet Article, July, 23 2008
Eduardo Galeano
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Our region is the kingdom of paradoxes. Take the case of Brazil: paradoxically, Aleijadinho, the ugliest man in Brazil, created the highest art of the colonial epoch; paradoxically Garrincha, ruined from childhood by poverty and polio, born to mis...
Galeano: A Walking Paradox
Znet Article, January, 10 2008
Eduardo Galeano
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Extracts from new book...
Galeano: How Much Longer?
Znet Article, July, 28 2006
Eduardo Galeano
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07/28/06 "IPS" -- - One country bombed two countries. Such impunity might astound were it not business as usual. In response to the few timid protests from the international community, Israel said mistakes were made.How much longer will horrors b...
Galeano: Interviewing Galeano
Znet Article, May, 20 2006
Eduardo Galeano
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JUAN GONZALEZ: We spend the rest of the hour with one of Latin America's most acclaimed writers: Eduardo Galeano. His works from the trilogy Memory of Fire to the classic Open Veins of Latin America are a unique blend of history, fiction, journali...
Galeano: The Second Founding of Bolivia
Znet Article, February, 19 2006
Eduardo Galeano
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On the 22nd of January of the year 2002, Evo was expelled from Paradise. In other words: Deputy Morales was ejected from the Parliament. On the 22nd of January of the year 2006, in the same hall of pomposity, Evo Morales was consecrated President ...
Galeano: Where the People Voted Against Fear
Znet Article, November, 18 2004
Eduardo Galeano
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A few days before the election of the President of the planet in North America, in South America elections and a plebiscite were held in a little-known, almost secret country called Uruguay. In these elections, for the first time in the country's ...
Galeano: Between Venezuela and Nothingland
Znet Article, August, 30 2004
Eduardo Galeano
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Strange dictator this Hugo Chávez. Masochistic and suicidal: he created a Constitution that permits the people to throw him out, and he risked this occurring in a recall referendum. This referendum that took place in Venezuela was the first of it...
Galeano: Bad Habits
Znet Article, April, 29 2004
Eduardo Galeano
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A small gesture of national dignity set off a raging scandal early this year. Throughout the world the press gave the story top billing as if it were a freak event, like, ''Man bites dog.'' So what was the cause? Brazil had required of US visito...
Galeano: The Country that Wants to Exist
Znet Article, October, 25 2003
Eduardo Galeano
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A gigantic gas explosion: This was the popular uprising that shook all of Bolivia and culminated in the resignation of President Sanchez de Lozada, who fled, leaving behind him a trail of corpses. The gas was to have been shipped to California--f...
Galeano: Dangerous Rainbow
Znet Article, September, 03 2003
Eduardo Galeano
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"Five centuries are a drop in the immense ocean of our history..."Richard Nixon, prestigious historian, had it clear. In 1972, when he was President of the United States, gave to his closest collaborators a short lecture on the decadence of Gr...
Galeano: The Finest Liars in the World
Znet Article, August, 14 2003
Eduardo Galeano
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The Finest Liars in the World
Galeano: Cuba Hurts
Znet Article, April, 26 2003
Eduardo Galeano
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The recent wave of executions and arrests in Cuba is very good news for the universal superpower, which remains obsessed with removing this persistent thorn from its paw. But it is very bad news-and very sad-for those of us who admired the valor o...
Galeano: The War
Znet Article, March, 23 2003
Eduardo Galeano
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Just think. In the middle of last year, when this war was still only gestating, George W. Bush stated that 'we have to be ready to attack in any obscure corner of the world'; ergo, Iraq is an obscure corner of the world. Does Bush believe that civ...
Galeano: To Say No
Znet Article, February, 06 2003
Eduardo Galeano
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[Translated by Francisco González] ...
Galeano: Priceless Values
Znet Article, February, 04 2003
Eduardo Galeano
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Translated by Simon Helweg-Larsen Recently, in many countries at once, numerous popular demonstrations have been staged against the warring vocation of the Masters of the Planet. In the streets of many cities, these demonstrations give testimon...
Galeano: The USA Is At War
Znet Article, January, 14 2003
Eduardo Galeano
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Translation. coorditrad@attac.org volunteer translators (*) Times of fear. The world is living in a state of terror, terror in disguise: some say it comes from Saddam Hussein, now tired of being enemy number one, or from Osama bin Ladin, p...
Galeano: Paradoxes
Znet Article, November, 10 2002
Eduardo Galeano
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Half of the population of Brazil lives in poverty or in extreme poverty, yet Lula's country is the world's second market for Montblanc fountain pens, and the ninth largest buyer of Ferraris. Armani shops in Sao Paulo sell more than in New York.
Galeano: SOS
Znet Article, September, 17 2002
Eduardo Galeano
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[translated by Francisco Gonzalez] Who gets the water? The monkey with the stick does. The unarmed monkey dies of thirst. This prehistory lesson opens the film "2001: A Space Odyssey". Now, for the 2003 odyssey, President Bush announces a militar...
Galeano: The Rope
Znet Article, August, 16 2002
Eduardo Galeano
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[Translated by Francisco González] ¿Do we really stir so much emotion in others? President Bush felt moved by the predicaments of Uruguay, even though there is no indication that he would be able find our country on a map. Could it be ...
Galeano: The Machine
Znet Article, April, 27 2002
Eduardo Galeano
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[Translated by Francisco González] Sigmund Freud had learned it from Jean-Martin Charcot: ideas can be implanted by hypnosis in the human mind. More than a century has gone by since then, and the technology of manipulation has made great...
Galeano: Black Humor
Znet Article, March, 14 2002
Eduardo Galeano
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Joke # 1 Adding lead to gasoline was a little trick invented in the U.S. Back in the nineteen twenties, leaded gasoline became the norm in America and in the rest of the world. By the time the United States government banned it in 1986, it was kil...
Galeano: Awards
Znet Article, February, 12 2002
Eduardo Galeano
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1. In spite of the terrorists who, with some regularity, are born in its sacred sands, Saudi Arabia is the main bastion of the Western world in the Middle East. It is a democratic monarchy: it sells every day--at low prices--one and a half millio...
Galeano: A Contradiction Called Uruguay
Znet Article, October, 22 1999
Eduardo Galeano
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translated by Francisco Gonzalez We Uruguayans have a certain tendency to believe that our country exists, but that the world remains unaware of it. The mass media--the media that has a worldwide impact--never mentions this tiny nation lost on th...
Galeano: To be like them
Znet Article, May, 05 1991
Eduardo Galeano
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[Translated by Francisco González] Dreams and nightmares are made of the same stuff, but this particular nightmare claims to be the only dream we are allowed to have: a development model that scorns life and worships things. Can we be like them? ...
