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A Uruguayan journalist, writer, and novelist considered one of the most important figures of the Latin American left, Galeano's book Las venas abiertas de América Latina (1971) was one of the few possessions writer Isabel Allende took with her when she fled Chile after Pinochet's military coup. The book, which chronicles U.S. and European imperialism in the region, was also given to President Barack Obama by Venezuela's leader Hugo Chávez in 2009 when he made an official state visit (click HERE for more). Galeano, who was born in Montevideo, began his career as a journalist in the early 60s as an editor for Marcha, an influential weekly journal. After the military coup in Uruguay in 1973, he was imprisoned and later forced to flee to Argentina. When the Videla regime took over Argentina several years later, he fled to Spain. He returned to Uruguay in 1985 when democracy was restored. In 2005 he became an advisor to TeleSUR, a left-wing pan-Latin American television station based in Caracas, Venezuela. In 2006, he won the International Human Rights Award by Global Exchange. Galeano, who was the author of some 50 books, often wrote about soccer, and he has been called "global soccer's pre-eminent man of letters" When he died at age 74 in 2015 (of lung cancer), he was survived by third wife Helena Villaga and three children.
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