Articles by Eduardo Galeano

Anything can happen in football, they say. Eduardo Galeano looks back on the World Cup and agrees.

In an upside-down world, there are many questions to be asked, writes Eduardo Galeano.

To justify itself, state terrorism creates terrorists: it sows hatred and harvests alibis, writes Eduardo Galeano.

Hope was a key word in the campaign of newly elected US President Barack Obama. Americans and citizens around the world were stirred by Obama’s oratorical prowess and his vision of change. Uruguayan writer Eduardo Galeano is optimistic.

Lies, food & the poor by Eduardo Galeano

by Eduardo Galeano

Uruguayans remain a ‘footballized’ people, according to Eduardo Galeano.

The Berlin Wall was considered an outrage. But where, asks Eduardo Galeano, is the outrage at the other walls being erected around the world, in Israel, Western Sahara and the US?

Indigenous leader Evo Morales’ election victory continues to cause shockwaves around the world. Eduardo Galeano sees it as symbolizing the second founding of Bolivia.

Travelling through Honduras, El Salvador, Mexico and the US, Eduardo Galeano is searched for ‘prohibited items’.

The inimitable Eduardo Galeano offers his thoughts on football.

The wonder - and the water - of Uruguay’s first-ever Left election victory. Eduardo Galeano celebrates.

Torture is used not to protect people but to terrorize them. Eduardo Galeano examines its uses and abuses.

Eduardo Galeano on the white curse that has afflicted the terrible history of Haiti.

Gays are the rainbow warriors, delivering some of the best news in human history, believes Eduardo Galeano.

The 12th and final instalment of Eduardo Galeano’s Windows series: Odysseys.

Cuba hurts - and so does Eduardo Galeano, following the spate of executions and arrests in Havana.

Eduardo Galeano wonders what George Bush knows that we don’t.

Choosing a baby to die - and a map of buried treasure. Eduardo Galeano contemplates the have-nots in the 10th part of his Windows series.

Eternal questions from Eduardo Galeano in the latest instalment of his Windows series.

In the Tragedy of Errors you can’t always tell the protagonists apart, says Eduardo Galeano.

Death makes us all naked and equal, says Eduardo Galeano in his fifth ‘Windows’ instalment.

Pre-millennial blues are understandable given the state we’re in, says Eduardo Galeano. But there’s plenty of hope of redemption out there if only you will look.