Yahoo News:
PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad – 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.
1 comment:
Mr. Kitty it's time you and I write a book. Your brains and my typing should do it. Bo Obama has a book deal and some dude who wrote a book in 1971 is now a best seller. Just think I know TGCN will buy one of our books and SPB too. Look we'll give Barack a copy and skys the limit. I'll sign my name and you use your paw print.
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