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1940–2015 Uruguay
Eduardo Hughes Galeano (September 3, 1940 - April 13, 2015 ) was an Uruguayan journalist, best known for his works Memoria del fuego (Memory of Fire Trilogy, 1986) and Las venas abiertas de América Latina (Open Veins of Latin America, 1971) which have been translated into twenty languages and transcend orthodox genres: combining fiction, journalism, political analysis, and history.
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Unlike solidarity, which is horizontal and takes place between equals, charity is top-down, humiliating those who receive it and never challenging the implicit power relations.
Upside Down: A Primer for the Looking Glass World (2000)
The division of labor among nations is that some specialize in winning and others in losing.
The dominant culture of the world teaches us that The Other is a threat, that our fellow human beings are a danger. We will all continue to be exiles in one form or another as long as we continue to accept the paradigm that the world is a racetrack or a battlefield.
As the owners of heaven forbade chocolate to mortals, so the owners of earth forbade it to commoners.
Mirrors: Stories of Almost Everyone (2009)
We are all mortal until the first kiss and the second glass of wine.
The Book of Embraces (1991)
Open Veins’ tried to be a book of political economy, but I didn’t yet have the necessary training or preparation
article (2014)
The wages Haiti requires by law belong in the department of science fiction: actual wages on coffee plantations vary from $.07 to $.15 a day
Galeano (1973)
The results of civilization were surprising: our lives became more secure but less free, and we worked a lot harder.”.
Mirrors: Stories of Almost Everyone (2009)
“He discovered or described hundreds of afflictions and cures, and by testing remedies he concluded “Laughter is the best medicine””
Mirrors: Stories of Almost Everyone (2009)
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 than the intellect. We live in the container culture, which despises the content.
I don't believe in charity. I believe in solidarity. Charity is so vertical. It goes from the top to the bottom. Solidarity is horizontal. It respects the other person. I have a lot to learn from other people.
in: David Barsamian (2004)
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