Uruguayan writer Eduardo Galeano gestures while addressing the audience at the municipal palace in Mexico City February 22, 2011. REUTERS/Jorge Dan Lopez
MONTEVIDEO (Reuters) - 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').
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