Victims of Political Repression in Uruguay - Eduardo Galeano, Jos Luis Massera, Daniel Viglietti, Enrique Amorim, Hctor Gutirrez Ruiz (Paperback)

Chapters: Eduardo Galeano, Jos Luis Massera, Daniel Viglietti, Enrique Amorim, Hctor Gutirrez Ruiz, Vladimir Roslik. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 27. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Eduardo Hughes Galeano (born September 3, 1940) is a Uruguayan journalist, writer and novelist. His most well known works are Memoria del fuego (Memory of Fire, 1986) and Las venas abiertas de Amrica Latina (Open Veins of Latin America, 1971) which have since been translated into twenty languages and transcend orthodox genres: combining fiction, journalism, political analysis, and history. The author himself has proclaimed his obsession as a writer saying, "I'm a writer obsessed with remembering, with remembering the past of America above all and above all that of Latin America, intimate land condemned to amnesia." Galeano was born in Montevideo, Uruguay to a middle class Catholic family of European descent. Like many young Latin American boys, Galeano dreamed of becoming a football (soccer) player; this desire was reflected in some of his works, such as El Ftbol A Sol Y Sombra (Football In Sun and Shadow). In his teens, Galeano worked odd jobs as a factory worker, a bill collector, a sign painter, a messenger, a typist, and a bank teller. At 14 years, Galeano sold his first political cartoon to the Socialist Party weekly, El Sol and married for the first time in 1959. He started his career as a journalist in the early 1960s as editor of Marcha, an influential weekly journal which had such contributors as Mario Vargas Llosa, Mario Benedetti, Manuel Maldonado Denis and Roberto Fernndez Retamar. For two years he edited the daily poca and worked as editor-in-chief of the University Press. In 1962, having divorced, he remarried to Graciela Berro. In 1973, a military coup took power in Uruguay; G...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=305910