Galeano Book Blowing Up on Amazon Thanks to Chavez-Obama Exchange
9:24 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Books| Culture| Latin America| Obama| Politics| Venezuela
19 Apr 2009The Eduardo Galeano book that Hugo Chavez gave President Obama yesterday, “The Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent”, has gone from an Amazon rank of 54,295 to number 2 today. Hey, not bad in just over 24 hours, and if this gets Americans to understand the history of the U.S. and Europe in Latin America, all the better.
Check out the interview with Chavez above where he talks about giving the book to Obama and how apparently awesome his meeting with the U.S. president was.
Via / AP
- Tags: Books, chavez, Eduardo Galeano, Hugo Chavez, obama, Summit of the Americas
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1 Response to Galeano Book Blowing Up on Amazon Thanks to Chavez-Obama Exchange
Why the Hell Does Joe Scarborough Insist on Making Chavez Sound Kind of French? | VivirLatino
April 21st, 2009 at 1:05 pm
[...] May I suggest that people start sending Scarborough a copy of the book “Shavez” gave to Obama? [...]