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Eduardo Galeano, a Uruguayan journalist and author who was a leading light in Latin America’s anti-capitalist movement, died after a battle with lung cancer on Monday, his publisher said. Galeano was 74. Galeano’s writing career spanned half a century, but he is best-known for his seminal 1971 book ‘The Open Veins of Latin America’ (‘Las Venas Abiertas de America Latina’). Subtitled ‘Five centuries of the pillage of a continent’, it remains a classic in anti-capitalist, left-wing circles. Crackling with indignant anger, the work describes the colonial-era scramble for Latin America’s riches by European powers, followed in the twentieth century by the region’s economic dominance by Britain and the United States. More here.