Name: Eduardo Galeano
Birthday: 03 September 1940
Deathday: 13 April 2015
Place of Birth: Montevideo, Uruguay
Known For: Acting
Eduardo Hughes Galeano 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". Galeano's best-known works are 'Las venas abiertas de América Latina' and 'Memoria del fuego'.