Book enjoys Obama effect
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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