Actually, Eduardo Galeano has not died. He hasn’t even stopped writing. Having lived as he did, having written as he did, is the guarantee of a transcendence that, turned into presence, will accompany us for many years. His extraordinary power of immortality lies in his way of thinking, of having been faithful to the essences of his concepts of life, of the word and of justice, but always maintaining himself in evolution, in a permanent utopic and heterodox revision of his ideas, and of having bequeathed the not always so frequent example of not having gotten used to his concepts and ideals and of daring to submit to criticism even the things in which he believed and loved, and even to question, in changed circumstances, those which he had created and defended. Because of that civic and humane attitude of profound intellectual honesty, as was to be expected, Eduardo Galeano gained the esteem and admiration of millions of persons in all of Latin America and the world. And, as corresponds, the hatred and disdain of others who are never ever missing, just because Galeano thought differently from them…. Leer más