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. 2 seller on Amazon.com.
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 before Chavez gave Obama a Spanish-language edition of the 1971 book on Saturday. It had jumped to No. 2 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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