[Marxism] Chavez gives Galeano book to Obama

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Hugo Chavez offers Spanish-language book as gift for President Obama

BY Celeste Katz
April 18th 2009
Vucci/AP

Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez hands President Barack Obama book,
'The Open Veins of Latin America,' by Uruguayan writer Eduardo
Galeano.


Hugo Chavez once famously dumped on President Obama's predecessor as
"the devil," but Saturday, the Venezuelan strongman came bearing gifts
for the new guy in the White House.

Chavez presented Obama with a copy of a book called "The Open Veins of
Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent" as the
two presidents made the rounds of the annual Summit of the Americas in
Trinidad and Tobago.

The book is a famed Uruguayan journalist's treatise on foreign
exploitation of the region.

Chavez said he signed it, "For Obama, with warm regards."

"It's an extraordinary book that helped me understand Latin America
when I was young, our history, our reality," said Chavez, who
apparently gave Obama a copy of the book in Spanish - a language he
doesn't speak.

It wasn't clear whether Obama would delve into the tome soon, if at all.

"I thought it was one of Chavez's books. I was going to give him one
of mine," Obama said.
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