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Published Date: 20 April 2009
By Margaret Neighbour
A BOOK by a Uruguayan journalist that Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez gave to President Barack Obama has become an instant best-seller in the US.
It's an astounding jump for Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent by Eduardo Galeano.

The paperback edition was ranked 54,295 on the online retailer Amazon before Chavez gave Obama a Spanish-language edition of the 1971 book on Saturday at the Summit of the Americas. It had jumped to number five by yesterday.

Galeano's book documents how foreign interests have dominated and afflicted Latin America since the Spanish conquest and is a favourite among left-wingers on the continent.



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  • Last Updated: 19 April 2009 10:04 PM
  • Source: The Scotsman
  • Location: Edinburgh
  • Related Topics: Barack Obama
 
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20/04/2009 02:05:26
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Tussler,

20/04/2009 02:59:17
Well well everything Obama touches turns to gold. Let's hope the same happens with the economy.

#1 Nannie the copycat queen is at work again.
When are you ever going to write something original?
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Jewel of the Forth,

Fife 20/04/2009 03:29:10
#2

Obama has taken the ecomomy so low it has nowhere to go but up.
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P Lee,

20/04/2009 05:46:54
Obama is lot better than Bush and he has respect of many world leaders. Bush had no respect.
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Kyla,

Inverness 20/04/2009 11:23:40
#4 P Lee

Why would anyone want the repect of dictators and thugs?
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20/04/2009 14:24:08
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Taz,

The Land of the Free. 20/04/2009 21:14:50
You people talk as if Americans gave a rats rear end about what the worlds losers think about anything. Don't you Brits get it...we yank your chain and you do as you are told...sit sit...good boys and girls...aintcha....
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A Clamper,

Edinburgh 11/05/2009 17:05:16
# Taz - not any more. The times they are a changin'.

 

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