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Helena Villagra, widow of Uruguayan writer Eduardo Galeano stands by his coffin during his wake held at the Congress in Montevideo on April 14, 2015. Galeano, an icon of the Latin American left who chronicled the region's injustices in a career that spanned decades and crossed genres, died Monday at age 74. AFP PHOTO / MIGUEL ROJO (Photo credit should read MIGUEL ROJO/AFP via Getty Images)

Helena Villagra, widow of Uruguayan writer Eduardo Galeano stands by his coffin during his wake held at the Congress in Montevideo on April 14, 2015. Galeano, an icon of the Latin American left who chronicled the region's injustices in a career that spanned decades and crossed genres, died Monday at age 74.  AFP PHOTO / MIGUEL ROJO        (Photo credit should read MIGUEL ROJO/AFP via Getty Images)