Galeano leaves a void in the oldest coffee Montevideo – The Universal

The Brazilian , the oldest coffee Montevideo, was left without his client’s name, the writer Eduardo Galeano , died today at age 74, which claimed to have learned ” all “in these places born in an era where there was” time to waste time “.
 

 Galeano was so bound (1940-2015) to this place, shelter opened in 1877 and since then the country’s intellectuals, currently composed coffee cream, caramel and liquor bears his name and remains one of the classics of the letter.
 

 

 The author of “ Open Veins of Latin America ” used to occupy a table on the left of the door of the hotel, next to a large window, the same as today chose a couple of friends, William and Santiago, to chat and drink.
 

 

 “We knew it was coming for a long time (coffee) and just at that table that we were. It was the opportunity to come and enjoy some of the bar,” said Santiago, a young Italian filed almost since he was born in Uruguay.
 

 

 “Here I stop, a cafe with an atmosphere,” he said on the establishment writer, author of one of the best known works of Latin American literature.
 

 

 It is the oldest of the open of the capital, “the ‘Last of the Mohicans’ of Montevideo” bar, as Galeano noted journalists to those cited within its walls.
 

 

 “I am one of the cafes in Montevideo. Cafés like this, the oldest of all. Browns times where there was no time to waste time. In the cafes I learned everything I know. They were my only university. I learned what more important, “Galeano said in an interview with Spanish television in 2006.
 

 

 Today, responsible for establishing declined to make public statements, dismayed by the news of who they considered a friend and in order not to commercially exploit the news of his death.
 

 

 The writer died in a hospital where he was recently admitted due to one of the many relapses had been suffering lately, family sources They pointed out today.
 

 

 In 2007 Galeano was involved in lung cancer and subsequently had times when their status seemed restored.
 

 

 The writer and journalist will be veiled Tuesday in the Hall of Lost Steps of their parliament, officials said.
 

 

 The wake will run from 15.00 (18.00 GMT) until 22.00 local time (01.00 GMT) so they can pay homage all those who want it, they said to Efe sources of the Presidency of the Republic.
 

 

 In the Hall of Lost Steps of Parliament honors to other personalities of Uruguayan culture, as the writer Mario Benedetti, who died in 2009, or the artist Carlos Páez Vilaró, who died in 2014 was also paid.
 

 

 Galeano, one of the leaders of the Latin American left, was honored today by presidents and writers from the region.
 

 

 “Veins of Latin America (Latin America) are open for your game, dear Edward!” Wrote the Ecuadorian president, Rafael Correa, in a Twitter message in which he calls “great teacher” and “friend”.
 

 

 The death of Eduardo Galeano is a “great loss” for fighting for “a Latin America more inclusive, just and caring,” said turn Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff.
 

 

 For the Mexican writer Elena Poniatowska , the greatest merit of Galeano’s have placed in our hands “a story of America understandable and shocking”.
 

 

 “Galeano collected episodes, feelings and ideas in our history who most impacted and we returned so that we will not forget,” wrote the author on Twitter.
 

 

 
 

 

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