"Many years ago, when I was young and still believed that the world could be shaped according to our best intentions a…"

"In his 1976 essay "Defensa de la palabra" Uruguayan writer Eduardo Galeano wrote, "What process of change can move a …"

"I love Galeano’s books. I mean, his book Open Veins of Latin America was an absolute eye-opener for many people, and …"

"I've gone back many times to Eduardo Galeano's essay Defense of the Word,"...Galeano's "defense" was written after hi…"

"Like thousands of refugees all over the continent, I also had to leave my after the military coup of 1973. I could no…"

"In his Book of Embraces, Eduardo has a story that I love. To me it is a splendid metaphor of writing in general and h…"

"Caroline S. Conzelman, a cultural anthropologist who teaches at the University of Colorado, Boulder, said her first t…"

"Eduardo Galeano's Genesis, he recounts a series of anecdotes which are really the roots of the Spanish American exper…"

"Scientists say that human beings are made of atoms, but a little bird told me that we are also made of stories."

"We live in a world where the funeral matters more than the dead, the wedding more than love and the physical rather t…"