Day Four

Eduardo Galeano with his readers.

The last week I was very thrilled because one of my favorite authors visited our university to give a little talk about his last book and also share with the students the ideas that came along of his personal way of analising the current reality of the world.

I'm talking about the Uruguayan writter Eduardo Galeano, who came to Mexico to a several activities, one of them was presenting his book "Mirrors" (obviously the name in Spanish is Espejos) on Veracruz, on The Museum of Fine Arts, a quick visit to the editorial of the journal "La Jornada" and finally on Sala Nezahualcóyotl here in UNAM.

It was on my class of Political Geography on high school when I read for the first time a book of him. It was "Las venas abiertas de América Latina", and I was shocked by the way he describes the situation that the Latin People live as a product of their common history of being colonies of other countries. I felt strongly interested on reading more books of him and it was kind of surprising for me noticing that he has currently published more than fifteen books! And I knowing only one of him I felt a little embarrased for not having read before his works.

Sala Nezahualcóyolt was over the top, I bumped with the fact that I was not the only one who was impatient of seeing him and hearing him speaking. What was he thinking in the moment of noticing the huge number of people that was clapping when he entered? HIs face reflected the emotions that he explained later.

That evening was unforgettable, his ideas sounded refreshing and with a different sense without loosing their strong. I felt completely sure that if we want some changes, that posibility is actually on our hands.