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[translated by Francisco Gonzalez] Who gets the water? The monkey with the stick does. The unarmed monkey dies of thirst. This prehistory…
Eduardo Galeano
Eduardo Galeano (1940-2015), born in Montevideo, Uruguay, was an essayist, journalist, historian, and activist, as well as one of Latin America’s most beloved literary figures. Galeano’s books include the trilogy Memory of Fire; The Book of Embraces; We Say No; Walking Words; and Mirrors: Stories of Almost Everyone. His last book, Children of the Days (Los híjos de los días), was published in English in 2013. An outspoken critic of the increasingly dehumanizing effects of globalization on modern society, Galeano remained a passionate advocate for human rights and justice.
[Translated by Francisco Gonzalez] ¿Do we really stir so much emotion in others? President Bush felt moved by the predicaments of Uruguay,…
[Translated by Francisco Gonzalez] Sigmund Freud had learned it from Jean-Martin Charcot: ideas can be implanted by hypnosis in the human mind.…
Joke # 1 Adding lead to gasoline was a little trick invented in the U.S. Back in the nineteen twenties, leaded gasoline…
1. In spite of the terrorists who, with some regularity, are born in its sacred sands, Saudi Arabia is the main bastion…
Eduardo Galeano The new millennium is upon us. It’s not something to be taken all that seriously considering the fact that the…
translated by Francisco Gonzalez We Uruguayans have a certain tendency to believe that our country exists, but that the world remains unaware…
[Translated by Francisco Gonzalez] Dreams and nightmares are made of the same stuff, but this particular nightmare claims to be the only…