percentage points less happy than the non-parent and that makes sense because having a kid is a lot of hard work and this is it's difficult for governments to bribe people into having children. don't knock ..

>> 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. in 1971 at the tender age of 31 he published a hair-raising indictment of north american influence on the hemisphere, "the open veins of latin america." four years ago at the summit of

the americas hugo chavez handed a copy of that book to barack obama. [cheers and applause] right. for all these with which eduardo galeano slipped into journalism, the rest of his writing life wasn't very easy. after the 1973 coup, he was arrested for his radical views and imprisoned. he broke free and fled to argentina where three years later he had to flee again. and the tories brigadier who had deposed and stalled a regime that became known or its secret camps, kidnappings and torture. when eduardo galeano's name appeared on argentine death squad is the escape and settled in spain where he wrote his three volume masterworks of america's five and years of

history, "memory of fire." surviving lung cancer a few years ago, freedom, he says, to employ an even larger canvas. in mayors published in 2009 he reflects on 5000 years of human experience. and he manages to do it all with a big heart and 18 incisive sense of perspective. is theme throughout the wrong mankind has endured since time immemorial and the human spirit that refuses to die. by now, eduardo's work has been translated into 30 languages. he is a moral force around the world. he is a recipient as you know of many international prices, but perhaps most impressive of all, he is an empathetical writer. as he told me yesterday, he can't help it. it's a muscle that doesn't tire.

even as the body does. this year we are all beneficiaries of a new work, "children of the days." like his earlier works, "children of the days" is a mosaic of miniature strung together to fashion a remarkable talent that raffled from january through december like an ancient book of days. each page, each day has and eliminating little story that attaches somehow to the corresponding days. we latins now, are known, excuse me, for jabbering on, he told me once. i have driven to write it all sharper and shorter. these are sometimes deeply disturbing, sometimes enormously reassuring, but all of them eye-opening and memorable. in sum, eduardo galeano is a

living treasure, a clearheaded writer who has been unafraid to expose what is hidden, to call things as he sees them, and invariably he sees them with a transcendent sense of justice. eduardo was very much on my mind as i wrote my biography a, which is at once a tale of revolutionary triumph and the tragic narrative of the unimaginable violence and corrosive miss mistrust which we are ongoing airs in latin america. i thought of eduardo as i wrote it because eduardo has always been conscience of the ways that history defines us. living in the past as i've done for a few years, i understand why eduardo looks at the present through history. in history, we see ourselves more clearly. we understand that we are

inheritance of the brutalities that came before us, but as eduardo also knows, history can show was a glimmer of humanity and courage as well. the meat can be heroic, the ordinary a minus can be noble in the most humble, and our fortitude of spirit. digging my way to the heart of bolivia trying to understand who he was as a man and what he came to represent as a quintessential latin american hero, i thought i always have that galeano tension in mind, the shining spirit on the one hand, and the all too dark human proclivities on the other. looking at the world this way, as eduardo does, with a keen eye towards human failings, human courage, and the misuses of power, i believe i was able to get a clear picture of his time

and how his story has shaped the latin americans. so i have eduardo to thank as so many of us writers to do for his brave, unblinking example. eduardo galeano is, after all, as a novelist has said, a kind of moral beacon. he keeps me morally awake, while lifting my spirits with tales of the sweet, deep humanity which without even after the coolest moments of history. for all the history that eduardo has re-created for us in his many eliminating works, he is a writer who has much to teach us about the present, a writer who lives in the right now. ladies and gentlemen, please welcome a superb writer and thinker, eduardo galeano. [cheers and applause]

>> the first time i came to the united states for a reading was some years ago. and my english was quite poor.

and so i began speaking -- [inaudible] and so i thought -- so lovely, so nice. now i want a good night. i just will say hello. welcome. i'm going to read some stories from this book, "children of the days," beginning with something i wrote like a sort of what i

understand to be the version of the genesis in the words of the mayan indians in other parts of latin america. the days begin to walk and day, the days made us, and thus we were born the children of the days -- [inaudible] and if we are children of the days, it is no surprise that every day gives rise to a story. you see, scientists say we are made of -- [inaudible], and perhaps true, but a little bird told me that we are made of

stories. and now i'm going to tell a few of those stories, born of the days. january 11, today in 1887 insult the, the north, the man who was sold to was born when carlos, founder of the dynasty of musicians and poets, and as they say, i don't know if it's correct or not, but he seems to have been the first to drive a model t, the ford the ford with a mustache, in those parts of northern argentina. his model t snorted and smoked as its wheels rolled forward.

it moseyed down the road. turtles stopped to wait for it. then a neighbor came to him, came up to him, greeted him but with a worried face, and commented, but mr. davalos, at this pace you'll never get the there. and he responded, i don't travel to get. i traveled to go. [laughter] >> this is a romantic text. perhaps too sad. but i'm obliged to read it because it's also sadness,

tragedies are a part of reality. october 14, a defeat for civilization. in the year 2002, h. mcdonald restaurants closed their doors in bolivia. [laughter] [applause] i know it's terrible but -- [laughter] that's the way it is. barely five years have the civilizing mission lasted. no one forced mcdonald's out. no one. bolivians simply turned their backs, or better put, mcdonald's turned their stomachs. perhaps people didn't open their

mouth. the most successful company on the planet had generously graced the country with its presence, and these ingrates refuse to acknowledge the gesture. [laughter] the states for progress this way to bolivia from embracing -- dissuaded olivia from embracing either junk food or the d.c. case of contemporary life. homemade empanadas derailed the development. bolivians, stubbornly attached to the ancient flavors of the family hearth, continued eating without haste in long, slow ceremonies. [laughter] gone forever, forever gone is the company that everywhere else

makes children happy, -- [laughter] fires workers who tried to unionize and jacks up the rate of obesity. [applause] >> april 12, manufacturing guilty party. on a day like today in the year 33, a day earlier or a day later, jesus of nazareth died on the cross. is judges found him guilty of inciting adultery, blasphemy and vomiting superstition. not many centuries later, the indians of the americas and the heretics of europe were found

guilty of those same crimes, exactly the same ones, and in the name of jesus of nazareth they were punished by lash, gallows, or fire. >> october 12, of course, the title is obviously the discovery. no real reason in general. [laughter] the discovery. in 1492, the natives discovered they were indians. [laughter] [applause] >> they are not serious. i cannot go on. [laughter] in 1492 the natives discovered they were indians. they discovered they live in america. they discovered they were natives. [laughter] they discovered there was in.

they discovered they owed obedience to a team in the queen from another world and the god from some other heaven. and this god had invented killed and clothing, and had perhaps he had ordered burned alive all who worship the sun and the moon and the earth and the rain that moistens it. there is a possible counter history they discovered, they discovered, discovery, the discovery. it says, it's the history that might have been. christopher columbus could not discover america because he didn't have a visa or even a passport. [laughter] [applause]

pedro couldn't get off the boat in brazil. he might've been covering his notebooks. muscles, the flu are links. [inaudible] never began the conquest of mexico and the rude because they didn't have working papers. [laughter] pedro was turned away from guatemala and pedro couldn't enter chile because they didn't bring proof of a clean record. [laughter] the mayflower pilgrims were sent back to see from the coast of massachusetts because immigration quotas were full. [laughter] [applause]

this is a homage to a couple of friends of mine. carlos guided two or three months ago, and they are something that the other face of the moon. they were born and raised in germany. in the year 1973, these two professors arrived in mexico. they enter the world in a community and introduced themselves by saying we have, to learn. the indians remain silent. after a while, one of them explains the silence. this is the first time anyone

has told us that. and there they remained, gudrun and carlos, learning year after year. from the mayan language they learned that no hierarchy separates subject from object, because i drink the water that drinks me and i'm watched by all that i watch. and they learned to greet people in the money away. -- the mayan way. saying i am another you. your another me. the first -- about immigration, which is subject, very popular

here. [laughter] december 18, the first exiles. today, december 18 is international migrants day. and it's not that moment recall the first in human history obliged to emigrate where adam and the. according to the official version, i'm afraid this -- according to the official version, you've turned to adam. she offered him the forbidden fruit and it was her fault that both of them were banished from paradise. but is that how it happened? really, is that? or did adam do what he did of

his own accord? [inaudible] [laughter] maybe eve offered him nothing and asked nothing of him. maybe adam chose to bite the forbidden fruit when he learned that eve had already done so. maybe she had already lost the privilege of immortality and adam opted to share her damnation. so he became mortal, but not alone. march 9, i'm sorry, but it's about the day mexico invaded the

united states. [laughter] i'm really sorry. [laughter] you know, international situation and so on, but -- [laughter] on this morning, march 91916 -- march 9, 1960, poncho cross the border, set fire to the city of columbus, killed some soldiers, and adds a few horses and guns and the following day was back in mexico to tell the tale. this is lightning -- is the only innovation the united states has suffered. in contrast, the united states has invaded practically every country in the entire world. since 1947 its department of war has been called, and this is

still called, the department of defense, and its war budget is called the defense budget. the names are an enigma comparable with the ministry of the holy trinity. >> guest: trinity. [laughter] [applause] >> july 1, always good news. in the year 2008, the government of the united states decided to erase nelson mandela's name from its list of terrorist. nelson mandela wasn't the least

of dangerous terrorists, dangers for the national security of the united states. and the most revered african in the world have pictured on the sinister role during 60 years so i didn't know it, but somebody, not this man, told me it happened during 60 years, nelson mandela, a terrorist, the least of dangerous terrorists, i began to have some doubts about war on terrorism. [laughter] [applause] is it really serious?

if it would be serious i would suggest to celebrate the day against terrorism on september 11 obviously, each september 11. i would suggest to pasting posters all around the world everywhere about the real terrorism. posters saying wanted, for kidnapping countries. wanted for strangling wages and jobs. wanted for raping the land, poisoning the water and stealing. wanted to for trafficking in fear. [applause]

>> june 5, nature is not mute. reality paints still lives. disasters are called natural as if nature were the executioner and not the victim. meanwhile, the climate goes crazy and we do get crazy. i at least absolutely. today, june 5, is world environment day. a good day to celebrate the new constitution of ecuador, which india 2008, for the first time in the history of the world, recognized nature as a subject with rights. it seems strange, this notion

that nature has writes as if it were a person. but in the united states it seems perfectly normal that big companies have human rights. [laughter] and they do, ever since a supreme court decision in 1886. so if nature were a bank, they would've already rescued it. [laughter] [applause] >> june 26, the kingdom of fear. today is international day against torture. by tragic irony, the uruguayan military dictatorship was born the following day in 1973 and

soon turned the country, my country into one huge torture chamber. for obtaining information torture was useless but practically useless, but it was very useful for sowing fear, and fear applies to uruguayans to live by silence or lies. while i was in exile, i received an unsigned, anonymous letters from uruguay. one of the letters said, lying sucks, and giving used to lying sucks. but worse than lying is teaching july. i have three children.

following thousands of stories, terrible stories -- of military dictatorships in latin america. almost impossible to choose or have the choice. and i finally tried to resume everything in a very short short, short story. which is quite original. i mean, it's not, i have never heard it before. i heard lots of stories of criminal terror and its victims. but this is special.

[inaudible] was one of the thousands of young men disappeared in argentina. he was a student and university, and all his crime was to be disturbing the order in university with nothing. in military lingo he was transferred. he disappeared. he was transferred. imprisoned at the same pace heard his last words. i have got something to tell you. you know, you know something? i have never made love. now they're going to kill me, and i never will.

a day of disappear, august 30. august 30, date of disappeared. disappeared, ray lewis, nameless graves and also all natural forests, stars. the fragrance of flowers, the taste the fruits. let us written by hand with a with time to waste time. soccer industry, the right to walk, the right to breathe, secure jobs, secure retirement, doors without locks, a sense of community and commonsense you.

>> also disappeared. november when danger animals. in 1986, [inaudible] struck the british isles and more than 2 million cows suspected of harboring contagious dementia faced capital punishment. in 1997, avian flu from hong kong so dependent and condemned a million and a half birds to premature death. in the year 2009 mexico and the united states suffered an outbreak of swine flu, and the entire world had to shield itself from the plague.

millions of pigs, no one knows how many, were sacrificed for coughing or sneezing. who is guilty of causing human disease? animals. it's that simple. animals, free of all suspicion, or the giants of global agribusiness, those sorcerers apprentice is to turn food into high potency chemical bombs. opinion makers, a couple of things, april 11 on this day in the year 2002, a coup d'état

turn the president of a business association and to the president of venezuela. is a glory did not last long. a couple of days later, venezuelans filling the streets reinstated the president they had elected with their votes. venezuela's biggest tv and radio networks celebrated the two, -- celebrated the coup, but somehow failed to cover the massive demonstrations that restored hugo chavez to his rightful place. unpleasant news is not worth reporting. [laughter] [applause] >> and this is a brother or a sister of the other story, that happens sometimes before.

figure 24, a lesson in realism. but it's also about the media, no? what i call in spanish -- [speaking spanish] [laughter] >> in 1815, napoleon bonaparte escaped from his prison in the habit of meld and set off to get the french. as he marched a company, while he is, his former official organ, his former official organ transplant, for that the people of france were eager to die to protect team louis the 18th. the paper said napoleon had

sullied and raped the soil of the fatherland. called him for an outlaw, usurper, traitor, played it, bandit chief, enemy of france who dares befoul the land from which he has been expelled and announced, this will be his final act of insanity. in the end, the king fled, no one died for him, and napoleon took his seat on the throne without firing a shot. and then the same daily, the same daily went on to report that the happy news of napoleon's arrival in the capital has caused a sudden and unanimous outburst of joy, everyone is hugging, everybody is hugging, cheers for the

emperor filled the air. in every eye are tears of bliss, all rejoice at the return of francis hero and swear at the deepest obedience to his majesty the emperor. [laughter] [speaking spanish] [laughter] >> this is a homage to international community. and also an explanation of the failure of all the summit meetings, summit meetings. at all have failed. they celebrate one of we, the summit meeting, and the result is always a failure. and i have, this explanation, also this explanation. the cook convened the suckling pig, the austrian, the deer, the chicken almond the rabbit, the partridge, the turkey, pheasant,

the sardine, the tuna, the shrimp, squid and even the crap and the turtle, who, the crap and the turtle who were obviously the last to arrive. [laughter] when all were present, when all were present and accounted for, the cook explained, i have brought you here to ask what sauce you would like to be eaten with. [laughter] one of the invitees responded, i don't want to be eaten at all. the cook then adjourned the meeting. [laughter] that's why the summit meetings trade. [applause] >> this is connected with the other one, about the

international experts. it's called the visitor. one day beginning september in the year 2000, 189 countries up the millennium declaration, by which they committed themselves to solving the world's most pressing problems. only one goal has been reached and it did not figure on their list. they managed to multiply the number of experts required to take on such a challenging agenda. [laughter] according to what i heard in santa domingo, one of those experts stopped by a chicken farm on the outskirts of the city of santa domingo.

the farm belonging to dona maria de las mercedes holmes, and asked her, if i tell you exactly how many chickens you have, will you give me one? he turned on his touchscreen tablet computer, initiated the gps, connected with the satellite camera through his 3g cell phone and booted up the pixel counting function. you have 132 chickens. and he caught one. dona maria de las mercedes holmes did not leave it at that. if i tell you what your work is, will you give me back my chicken? [laughter] okay, you're an international expert. i know it because you came without anyone calling you, you

entered my chicken farm without asking permission, you told me something i already knew and then you charged me for it. [laughter] [applause] >> october 17 is international day for the irrigation of poverty. poverty does not explode like bombs or boom like gunfire. we know everything about poor people. everything. what they don't work at, what they don't eat, how much they don't way, how much they don't grow, what they don't think, how often they don't vote, and what they don't believe in. the only thing left to learn his wife were people are poor.

could it be because we are told by their nakedness and enriched by their hunger? the fact is there is war fight against poor people but not against poverty. and the best part, world richness goes on to finance wars and military expenses which may be also called criminal expens expenses. and two other ins also quite absurd, the evolution of war, sources are quite absurd. for instance, just to give you

an egg sample, on the world signed today, november 10, a resilient physician named -- [inaudible], steadied some statistics and numbers about this subject. investments on different purposes. and he calculated that the world invests five times as much in may 6 and 11th in female silicone implants as in finding a cure for alzheimer's. five times more than in alzheimer's, a cure for alzheimer's. so in translation, it will be

that equivalent to say the prophecy, in a few years more we will have old women with huge tits and old men with stiff cocks, but none of them will remember what they are for. [laughter] [applause] [laughter] >> a lesson in theater. december 6, on this day, december 6, in 1938, the house

comedy on an american activities operating out of washington questions holly flanigan. she ran the federal theatre project. a congressman from alabama led the interrogation. referring to an article he had written, he asked you are quoting from this. is he a communist? company, -- oh, she said, i'm sorry. i'm very sorry but i was quoting from christopher marlowe. tell us who this marlowe is so big and get the proper reference. well, he was the greatest dramatist in the period immediately preceding shakespeare. all, of course, of course, said

the senator. yes, yes, we have some, some people, some of these people called communists back in the days of the greek theater. [laughter] and she said quite true. and i believe, continue, the sender, and i believe -- [inaudible] even he was guilty of teaching class consciousness, wasn't he? well, i believe that was alleged against almost all of the greek dramatists. and a congressman starts, so we cannot say when it began. [laughter]

december 5, the longing or launching, longing for beauty. longing for beauty. the president of the spanish society of natural history ruled in 1886, december 5 that the cave paintings were notch thousands of years old. no, not at all. they are the work of some disciple of today's school of modern art, he insisted. confirmed the suspicions of nearly all the experts, 20 years later those experts have to admit they were wrong. thus, it was proven and the longing for beauty, like hunger, and like desire, has always accompanied the human adventure in the world.

many years before that scene we call civilization, we were turning birds, bombs into flutes and seashells into necklaces. we were making colors by mixing earth, blood, rocks and plant juices to beautify our case -- our case and turn our bodies into walking paintings. when the spanish conquistadors arrived at bella cruise, they found there were indians walking around naked. she and he with their bodies painted, painted to please each other and themselves. the conquistadors concluded, these are the worst.

>> this is a homage to poetry, and especially to a poet who was my friend, my brother. may 10, the unforgivable. the poet wept. he never learned to shut up or take orders and he loved and he loved fearlessly on the -- on the eve of this day in the year 1975, his fellow guerrillas in el salvador showed him while he slept. [inaudible] revolutionaries who killed to punish disagreement are no less criminals and

generals who killed to perpetrate injustice. [applause] off to the loony bin. [laughter] let me see. i forgot something here. [laughter] sorry. i'm absent-minded. and perhaps also a little mentally retarded. [laughter] >> okay, let's go.

groupers and other fish, dolphins, swans, flamingos, albatrosses, penguins, buffaloes, ostrich, koala bears, orangutans and other monkeys, butterflies and other insects, and many more of our relatives in the animal kingdom have homosexual relations. female to female, male to male, for an encounter or for a lifetime. lucky for them they aren't people, humans. [laughter] or they should be sent to the loony bin. until this day, may 16 in the year 1990, 15 minutes ago in historical terms, homosexuality featured on the world health

organizations least of mental illness. [speaking spanish] >> this is the kind of experts that are ruling the world. [speaking spanish] [applause] >> february 8, in 1980 an

extraordinary demonstration to keep the streets of the streets -- under the military dictatorship, a judge had outlawed kisses that undermined public morals. the ruling by the judge which punish such cases with jail terms described him this way. some cases are for -- obscene like a kiss on the neck, the private parts, it's a likely cinema roddick is in which the -- come together i've met the city responded by becoming one huge kiss-a-gram.

never had people kissed so much. prohibition sparked a desire. me of those were out of simple curiosity wanted a taste of the kiss. [laughter] august 13, the right to bravery. in 1816, the government in buenos aires bestowed the rank of lieutenant colonel on a man and -- on a woman in virtue of her manly efforts. she let the guerrillas who took things from the spanish in the war of independence. were -- what is a? war was man's business. and women were not allowed.

yet mailed officers could not help but admire what they called the -- courage of this woman. after many miles on horseback when the war had already killed her husband and five of her six children, she also lost her life. she died in poverty, poor among the poor and was buried in a common grave. nearly two centuries later, the argentine government, now led by a woman, promoted her to the rank of general. in a homage to her womanly bravery. [applause] >> about another woman i admire a lot, i love her.

january 15, in 1919, the revolutionary was murdered in berlin. her killers bludgeoned her with rifle blows and tossed her into the waters of her cannot. along the way, she lost issue. someone picked up the shoe. that shoe dropped in the mud. rosa longed for a world where justice would not be sacrificed in the name of freedom, and freedom would not be sacrificed in the name of justice. every day, some hand picks up that boehner. drop in the mud, like the shoe.

in rome in the year 208, 18 wrote -- in which she revealed its discovery in the art of healing. among other remedies the physician, physician of to emperor's, poet and owner of the best library of his time propose and infallible way to avoid fee for and keep death at bay. just by hanging a word, a word across her chest day and night. the word was abracadabra. [laughter] which in ancient hebrew meant, and it still means, --

[inaudible]. >> and then, last, in spanish i want to read a text about the last day of the year. it's not from this book. it's from another book wrote three or four years before. ..

the rebellion challenged and devoured thousands upon thousands of visionaries to change psychos at this stage. rice and lasted many years and two it lasted the city of numbing ear, cat of the hispanic were opposed was besieged, and burned to the ground. it remains on a hill surrounded by fields of wheat at the edge on the city of the city that changed the world's calendar forever. practically nothing is left. but when we raise our glasses at night, every december 31, we

drink a toast to her come the city has been in ca. whether or not we realize that, may they always be another year people. [speaking in spanish] [speaking in spanish] [speaking in spanish]

[speaking in spanish] [applause] [applause] feedback truly wonderful cameos. every little story with some

important to say. he didn't tell my favorite one, which is the one that as you know, during holy week of not america we have recession, no clicks with the fashions of the whole community goes out and the watch the jesus performed the stations of the cross and he drags across through town with everybody watching. shall i tell it or you tell it? [inaudible] >> i will tell it then because i know it by memory. i didn't bring the book, but i know the story. >> the story is the story i told about the little child. i would like to read it myself because it's my friend. >> can we have the boat?

>> yes, please. the book up here, the miracle. [applause] wonderful story. sorry to assign you this task. >> is there an index clicks [laughter] just a moment. now i've got it. >> is worth waiting for. [speaking in spanish] have been recently come story, in the last holy week.

april 21, it happened in spain and a town on the evening of this day, april 21 and 2011. and easter procession. a huge crowd watched in silence as jesus christ beaten with by roman soldiers, but a boy broke the silence, seated on his father's shoulders, mark go shouted the mid-team would. [speaking in spanish] site that, fight back. marcos was two years, four months and 21 days old. [applause]

>> thank you for reading that. it's my favorite. now i've read somewhere that your great fear is they are all suffering from amnesia. is that so clicks >> i'm sure that it's something -- a huge problem to solve because our human rainbow is being mutilated by the official in asia whose son power of our best callers in the shining beauty, colors in this

rainbow, our rainbow. this mutilation has been done by the machismo coming from women's histories. it is also meaning -- [inaudible] [laughter] and this is some sort of amnesia who avoided us, prohibit us to see the possible beauty or possible greatness. so in that sense, i think i

right or i try to rate the rediscovery of the human rainbow and recovering the memory of a lot of women in that black people and indians and so miniskirted from this world. some of them so valuable, so i'm porton. in my reading today, i told two stories, which are very good examples of this, but there's also a lot of other stories. there is a story about black people, but it's not mine, but they included it in the book.

it's a poem by that great poet i think from senegal. let me see. where is it? it's not mine, but it's so beautiful that i thought it was a crime not to include it. >> webpage? >> 253?

263. >> no, it 263 perhaps? no, not 63. 263. so i was not efficient. with your help of course. but it's so beautiful. 263. beloved, white rather, when i was morneau is black. when i corrupt i was black. when i am in the sun, i am back. when i died, i will be black. ending while, when you were

born, you repeat. when you grew up, you will wait. when you're in the sun, you turn red. when you feel cold, you turn blue. when you feel fear, you turn green. when you fall ill, you turn yellow. when you die, you will be great. so which of us is the colored man? [applause] >> that is beautiful. you know, this book as you well know was full of women heard as you say condi rice did a lot of women from oblivion. i would say at least half of the book is about women. was this a conscious choice on

your part? >> it's another book. >> that's always been the case. >> the voices are so important, not only because women are half of all of us, but also because women so value intelligence, smart, and the delicate to have been women. yes, guilty of being women. this is not so terrible as it was before. we are quite status. not me. i am the only exception.

[laughter] >> i think you once said latin america is like a woman whispering in your ear, no? latin america is a woman talking in your ear? >> talking in my ear, secrets. telling me secrets, yes. >> that's a lovely picture. >> that is what i feel, yes. >> sandra sena row once said that she write like a woman. >> perhaps, yes. >> i don't know what that would

mean. >> it's true. i steal the dreams of my wife because she dreams marvelous dream. my dreams are so that i have no choice but to see how he had [laughter] the other day i don't remember where, this story is a dream that we were speaking out about their lives at another place, but i was speaking about this sort of collect to hysteria nowadays, security, and security , something like, no

click. the error -- the airport is a terrible place for me. take off your belt, take off your shoes to what is best for? and so she had a dream. the practice time, it's always the same humiliating theme. she asked him, did you have a dream last night? i might answer perhaps yes, but i forgot it completely. nbo? i did, yes. remember airports?

airports, really? and then she told me she had a dream about an airport with a very long line of passengers waiting. we both were in the line. each one of the passengers with a pillow under the iron, the pillow used the night before. and all the pillows were sent to a machine who is able to breathe inside the pillows, the dreams the night before. it was a machine specialized in seeking dreams dangerous for national security.

[laughter] [applause] the fact is that really come a dreams are dangerous for the national security. [laughter] >> indeed. well, speaking of dreams, with latin americans are accused of living and magical realism. and could you explain, eduardo, to this audience, what is magical realism after all? >> magical wide? >> magical realism. >> it's literally a way of telling that reality is real, just a way of trying to be buying. we cannot discover the magic inside each little insignificant

fact of the life. i think the real greatness is not in the big famous -- no, no, the real greatness is inside the small things, the small gifts we've received from reality. it's just that the problem is we are blinded by rainbow, beautiful rainbow, where also blinded the greatness of small things and small people and usually it's an upside down world because they are supposed to be nearer, to admire, applaud

everything that is big and heavy and spec secular. instead of looking at the little facts of each day in which magic is inside contained in visible only for those who have the iso could and can be able to see what other people cannot see because they are praying to be blind, blind at this beauty, perhaps because usually beauty can't accompany by the horrors. we are contradictions in movement and each of us contain

a and they have been in this is a matter of life. there was a sentence, my friend carly terris, a sentence used, which is some thing like in my historian of, [speaking in spanish] it's a homage to contradiction because it would be said in english, in history --

[speaking in spanish] in history, as in nature -- [speaking in spanish] >> is the source of life. >> i was sure that this was a sentence written by karl marx, but the germans wrote this book of mine, and days and nights happen to be a specialist on the life and works of karl marx and he told me he couldn't find a sentence in his story a -- no,

[speaking in spanish] and so, i began looking myself in that books cannot couldn't find it, but i was absolutely sure i had read it and it was a sentence of marx, silly answer to my translator, don't worry, this sentence is a sentence of marx, that he forgot to write it. [laughter] [applause] >> i like especially what eduardo said that each of us contains a little heaven and a little. it's a wonderful concept. >> some people contain much

bigger. [laughter] >> in the small things like to have it. i want to think eduardo very, very much for being with us tonight. [applause] [cheers and applause] >> well, i'm the author of finding our way in the next

america which just came out in paperback. i don't think i'm going to read that for a while. my three good books for the summer is the unwinding it i'm almost there with that, so i could recommend having read it. it's a gripping tale of basically the unwinding of the middle class. it's almost george packer is not in the book at all himself and so is the unwinding of america, but also specifically the middle class. even people who've lost jobs, have been downsized, whose wages have declined since they were young people rather than rising the way you expected them to do in this country. it's really a very provocative and important book, so that i recommend highly. i'm looking forward to rachel kushner's the flamethrowers. i had i read that, but it's a story of a young woman in the 1970s.

what intrigues me about it besides the story is that laura miller on salon talk about how rachel kushner's authority and the book is really intriguing, but also rattling ice on reviewers who are used to a woman taken the liberty she takes in the book. i can't wait to see what that really means. and finally, i'm also getting around to ira katz nelson, fear itself. it's a big book. schlepping it to the beach will be fun, but it's intellectual and political history of the new deal also both in name but come in and of world war ii, tying the domestic and international together in a way that most scholars tend not to and also tracing the unraveling of the new deal back to its roots when

it excluded african-americans in order to get certain legislation passed, which set the conflict in the 60s and 70s when african-americans were long overdue to get the rights, to get things they didn't get from the new deal and the new deal coalition fell apart. that's an important book now that we have people trying to take apart the new deal coalition for good.

>> the more i got to look into his message, the more i realized how right that ways. the last years, left has decided to political debate is worthless. they're not going to make policy in the best way to solve the nation's problems. they're not going to provide evidence. they would list morally deficient human being. and lastly, we saw from colin powell, brian williams and president obama himself. colin powell talked about the so-called dark gain of intolerance running throughout the republican party. what evidence did you provide? that we are not left wing, that we don't believe in anthropogenic climate change or we don't believe there should be redistribution of wealth or we don't believe in obamacare. if you select that would make us not racist. colin powell should know how not racist or party is considering supporting him despite liberalism and u.s. secretary of

state under president bush obviously. some and treated well by the republican party. that means we're the bad guys. president obama ticket in his natural address last week also. he said a peculiar line in his speech, was that absolutism not principle and name calling is not discussion. he then proceeded to spend the rest of his calling and avoiding principle and being an absolutist. he suggested if you disagree with him you got people in twilight years to live in poverty. by parents of disabled kids who have no recourse. you want people to be treated as equally devout women to be paid less than men. he set out those things that is clearly the undertone of his speech. yesterday dianne feinstein gets up and leaves off her press conference with a pastor saying if you're a good christian you

have to be for gun control. if you're good person he had to be for gun control otherwise you don't care kids are killed around the country in schools and churches in places like sandy hook. for several different bullies worth pointing out. i'm going to divide this into two sections. the first is what it is we face on the other part is how we fight this because it's an overwhelming attempt by the left to silence the debate, to shut us out to copy onto being quiet because it's much easier not being a racist, sexist, bigot, who hates every minority.