Open Veins, Healing Wounds in Latin America

Amy Goodman / Truthdig Apr 17, 2015 For the first time in more than half a century, the presidents of the United States and Cuba have had a formal meeting. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

Beloved Uruguayan Author Eduardo Galeano Dies

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Apr 13, 2015 The Latin American writer commonly regarded as the poet laureate of the anti-globalization movement has succumbed to lung cancer at age 74. Watch all of his interviews on “Democracy Now!” Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

On Women Who Refused to Live in Silence and Be Consigned to Oblivion

By Eduardo Galeano, TomDispatch Mar 30, 2015 In 1919 Rosa Luxemburg, the revolutionary, was murdered in Berlin. Her killers bludgeoned her with rifle blows and tossed her into the waters of a canal. Along the way, she lost a shoe. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )

Riddles, Lies and Lives — Castro, Muhammad Ali, Einstein and Barbie

By Eduardo Galeano, TomDispatch Aug 18, 2014 It was not by Lucifer’s curse or God’s miracle that the new country managed to outlive 10 U.S. presidents, their napkins spread in their laps, ready to eat it with knife and fork. His enemies do not say that in spite of sorrow, external aggression and internal high-handedness, the distressed island spawned the least unjust society in Latin America. Dig deeper ( 10 Min. Read )

The World Cup and the Corporatization of Soccer

By Eduardo Galeano, TomDispatch Jun 9, 2014 Have you ever entered an empty stadium? Try it. Stand in the middle of the field and listen. There is nothing less empty than an empty stadium. There is nothing less mute than stands bereft of spectators. Dig deeper ( 9 Min. Read )

Eduardo Galeano: ‘This World Is Not Democratic at All’ (Video)

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Jul 25, 2013 The "poet laureate of the anti-globalization movement," who has been published here at Truthdig, says "the world is organized by the war economy and the war culture." Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

‘Iraq Invades the United States’ and Other Headlines

By Eduardo Galeano, TomDispatch Jul 25, 2013 March 9. On this early morning in 1916, Pancho Villa crossed the border with his horsemen, set fire to the city of Columbus, killed several soldiers, nabbed a few horses and guns, and the following day was back in Mexico to tell the tale. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )

The Life and Death of Words, People and Even Nature

By Eduardo Galeano, TomDispatch May 1, 2013 After Roman legions invaded Egypt, during one of the battles waged by Julius Caesar against the brother of Cleopatra, fire devoured most of the thousands upon thousands of papyrus scrolls in the Library of Alexandria. A pair of millennia later, during George W. Bush’s crusade against an imaginary enemy in Iraq, most of the books in the Library of Baghdad were reduced to ashes. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )