Eduardo Galeano: Latin America’s poet-historian | Ep 20 Stories of Resistance

The Real News Podcast · Apr 14, 2025 · 5m

Titles do not do Eduardo Galeano justice. He was writer, reader, journalist, editor. But he was also historian. Catching stories in the air. Writing and retelling them anew. But he did not write for the stuffy halls of the elites or academia. He wrote for the people. He was a truth teller. A myth maker. An essayist. A poet. Polishing his craft. Honing his art. Chiseling his sculptures with word, until they were perfectly symmetrical. Gorgeous bouquets of words.

He was a storyteller. And his tales had morals. His vignettes — tiny packets of beauty that remind us who we are, and where we come…