Quote by: Eduardo Galeano

Our defeat was always implicit in the victory of others; our wealth has always generated our poverty by nourishing the prosperity of others - the empires and their native overseers. In the colonial and neocolonial alchemy, gold changes into scrap metal and food into poison.


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Author Bio


  • NameEduardo Galeano
  • DescriptionUruguayan writer
  • AliasesEduardo Hughes Galeano; Eduardo Germán María Hughes Galeano
  • BornSeptember 3, 1940
  • DiedApril 13, 2015
  • CountryUruguay
  • ProfessionJournalist; Writer
  • AwardsStig Dagerman Prize