Quote by Eduardo Hughes Galeano

“Bacteria and viruses were the most effective allies.”

— Eduardo Hughes Galeano

“The Revolution is indeed living thorough the hard times of transition and sacrifice. The Cubans themselves have learned that socialism is built with clenched…

— Eduardo Hughes Galeano

“Here," an old sugar worker told me, "the people have a great love for martyrs--but only after they're dead. Before, there's nothing but complaints.”

— Eduardo Hughes Galeano

“Cuba,” he said in his resounding defense plea, “continues to be a producer of raw materials. We exhort sugar to import candy, we export…

— Eduardo Hughes Galeano

“All I know is this: art is art, or it's shit”

— Eduardo Hughes Galeano

“The world,' he revealed, 'is a heap of people, a sea of tiny flames.' Each person shines with his or her own light. No…

— Eduardo Hughes Galeano

“The dreams were off on a trip. Helena went as far as the train station with them. She bade them farewell from the platform,…

— Eduardo Hughes Galeano

“For sailors with a desire for wind, memory is a good port of departure.”

— Eduardo Hughes Galeano

“If thats how it was done, and thats how it had always been done, there had to be a reason”

— Eduardo Hughes Galeano

“In our day, this global offensive plays a well-defines role. Its aim is to justify te very unequal income distribution between countries and social…

— Eduardo Hughes Galeano

“Latin America is the region of open veins. Everything from the discovery until our times, has always been transmuted into European--or later--United States-- capital,…

— Eduardo Hughes Galeano

“Along the way we have even lost the right to call ourselves Americans, although the Haitians and the Cubans appeared in history as new…

— Eduardo Hughes Galeano