Place of Birth: Montevideo, UruguayBirthday: 03 September 1940Bio: 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\'.