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Uruguyan Writer Mario Benedetti Dies at 88

HeadlineMay 20, 2009

And the Uruguyan writer Mario Benedetti has died at the age of eighty-eight. A popular novelist and playwright, Benedetti was also an outspoken political commentator, criticizing US intervention in Latin America and the Cuban embargo.

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