Chavez's gift to Obama swiftly becomes best-seller (AP)

[flamingdem]

* Thia is the bible for the left in Latin America that was read aloud on South American buses in the 70s and 80s by activists. Many of us cut our teeth on it way back according to some of the earlier threads


Chavez's gift to Obama swiftly becomes best-seller

PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad (AP) — A book by an Uruguayan journalist that Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez gave to President Barack Obama is now the No. 5 seller on Amazon.com.

It's an astounding jump for "Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent," by Uruguayan journalist Eduardo Galeano.

The paperback edition was ranked 54,295 on the online retailer before Chavez gave Obama a Spanish-language edition of the 1971 book on Saturday. It had jumped to No. 5 by Sunday.

The English hardcover edition is listed as out of print.

Galeano's book documents how foreign interests have dominated and afflicted Latin America since the Spanish conquest. It's a favorite among leftists.

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[msongs]

1. as if the catholic "conquest" was not a foreign interest lol nt

[flamingdem]

2. I guess "God" being everywhere and all is beyond foreign! nt