This Tuesday the world remembers the 79th anniversary of the birth of Uruguayan writer, historian and journalist Eduardo Galeano, who was born on September 3, 1940 in Montevideo, Uruguay. Galeano began in journalism at age 14 in the socialist weekly "The Sun", in which he published drawings and political cartoons with the signature "Gius". In 1971, he writes “Las venas abierta de América Latina”, an essay that proposes a re-reading of the continent marking a before and after in the way of understanding this hemisphere. In 1973 he was imprisoned and then forced into exile from Uruguay by the military government, so he traveled to Argentina, where he founded the magazine "Crisis." After spending some time in exile in Argentina and then in Spain, Galeano returned to Uruguay in 1985, where, along with other writers and journalists who had returned from exile, he founded the weekly “Gap”. He also published the books "The Song of Us" (1975), "The Faces and the Masks" (1984), "The Windy Century" (1986), "The Book of Hugs" (1989) and "Football a sun and shade ”(1995). He died on April 13, 2015 at age 74, because of lung cancer he had suffered since 2007.