Eduardo Galeano
Eduardo Galeano
Eduardo Hughes Galeanowas an Uruguayan journalist, writer and novelist considered, among other things, "global soccer's pre-eminent man of letters" and "a literary giant of the Latin American left"...
NationalityUruguayan
ProfessionMemoirist
Date of Birth3 September 1940
CityMontevideo, Uruguay
CountryUruguay
heart writing reality
Reality is very, very contradictory, and so I try to write just perfecting what I see, what I read, what I feel, in a feel-thinking way. Not only giving ideas, or receiving ideas, or trying to explain something, but mainly feel-thinking, a feel-thinking language able to tie the heart and the mind, which have been divorced.
running writing adventure
Writing is a marvelous adventure and very labor-intensive: those words run away and try to escape. They are very difficult to capture.
owners
From their castle in Zurich, the owners of soccer do not propose, they impose. That's their way.
believe people answers
We live in a world that treats the dead better than the living. We, the living are askers of questions and givers of answers, and we have other grave defects unpardonable by a system that believes death, like money, improves people.
moving god-love
A pretty move, for the love of God.
latin known
We Latins are known for jabbering on.
prehistoric
I am quite prehistoric, absolutely prehistoric.
soccer real war
Soccer, metaphor for war, at times turns into real war.
soccer sports running
The fiesta of soccer, a feast for the legs that play and the eyes that watch, is much more than a big business run by overlords from Switzerland. The most popular sport in the world wants to serve the people who embrace it.
information purpose torture
The purpose of torture is not getting information. It's spreading fear.
charity helping solidarity
Charity, vertical, humiliates. Solidarity, horizontal, helps.
jobs political lines
It is highly improbable that the bureaucrat will put his life on the line. It is absolutely impossible that he'll put his job on the line.
greatness rainbow racism
The human rainbow had been mutilated by machismo, racism, militarism and a lot of other isms, who have been terribly killing our greatness, our possible greatness, our possible beauty.
mean interesting community
In this world which is losing faith in so called representative democracy, there are new developments in participatory democracy. These are very interesting developments, reflecting the revitalization of community power with a more and more active presence of minorities in political life, including the presence of women who are of course by no means a minority.