Eduardo Galeano
- Birthday: 9/3/1940
- Deathday: 4/13/2015
- Place of birth: Montevideo, Uruguay
- Fame for: Acting
Biography
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'.