you can watch this and other programs online at the booktv.org. uruguayan author eduardo galeano talks but his latest book of world history, children of the days. in the book, mr. galeano writes about an event that happened on each day of the year. this is about an hour 20. thank you very much. thank you, julie, for that lovely introduction. i suspect all of you know this, but ladies and gentlemen, tonight he will be in the presence of a literary giant. among latin american giants, marquez is known for mesmerizi mesmerizing, for wooing, educates, captivates, and then there is eduardo galeano, truth teller, galvanize her, firebrand, a writer who tells us about history of those who inhabit power don t want us to know or truly understand. eduardo galeano was born a commentator it seems. by the time he was 14 he was publishing cartoons in newspapers. by 20 was the editor of the famous left wing weekly paper. shortly after he became the top executive of the paper of record
sure. but i hope and i think that maybe we are slowly moving away from that. .. and so, i berti hosted the u.s. ashcan world country and woman counsel there. we did videoconferencing into afghanistan with the minister of education in the u.s. ambassador to afghanistan. the ambassador was with us from dallas along with several ashcan scholars and from other afghan women who were doing projects in afghanistan, came as the secretary-general who is a bulgarian case. they are very act of literacy. and this u.s. afghan women s council was focused on literacy for afghan women and girls. and so i want to keep working on that. i hope that the united states will stand with afghanistan. it s really important. if we don t hamman just afraid to go back to what they were. and it s really important, especially for the women there. i met with this group of afghan parliamentarian members of parliament than right before george and i laughed the white house and one of them said, you know, this