Articles by Eduardo Galeano

• Nothingland—or Venezuela?
  • Eduardo Galeano

  in NLR 29, September-October 2004, pp. 26-27
  Subjects: Venezuela
  

  Reviled by Venezuela’s TV channels, survivor of a US-backed coup attempt and a two-month employers’ strike, Hugo Chávez has been given yet another popular mandate—to the ill-concealed dismay of the financial press. Eduardo Galeano’s miniature snapshot of a flourishing Latin American democracy.

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• The Noose
  • Eduardo Galeano

  in NLR 17, September-October 2002, pp. 52-53
  Subjects: Uruguay
  

  A garotted Uruguay—‘dedicated to turning itself from a nation-state into a bank with beaches’—in the eyes of its greatest poet, as credits descend and the young depart.

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