By 1976 there was a military coup also in Argentina, and the “dirty war” against intellectuals, leftists, journalists, and artists began. Galeano initiated another exile, this time in Spain, with Helena Villagra, his wife. In Spain he wrote “Days and Nights of Love and War”, a book about memory, and soon after he wrote about the ‘soul' of America in the acclaimed “Memories of Fire” series - a massive fresco of Latin American history since the pre
