I am astonished each time I come to the U.S. by the ignorance of a high percentage of the population, which knows almost nothing about Latin America or about the world. It's quite blind and deaf to anything that may happen outside the frontiers of the U.S.

Who are not but could be. Who do not have faces but arms. He settled in Argentina where he founded the cultural magazine Crisis.

Eduardo Hughes Galeano (born September 3 1940) is a Uruguayan journalist writer and novelist. His best known works are Memoria del fuego (Memory of Fire Trilogy 1986) and Las venas abiertas de América Latina (Open Veins of Latin America 1971) which have been translated into twenty languages and transcend orthodox genres: combining fiction journalism political analysis and history. The author himself has proclaimed his obsession as a writer saying "I'm a writer obsessed with remembering with remembering the past of America above all and above all that of Latin America intimate land condemned to amnesia.