Re: [Marxism] President Hugo Chavez recommends 100 must read books

[Sam B <sam.b.ann.arbor@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 11:12 PM, Arnie Kawano <redarnie@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> The Guardian (UK) reported that President Chavez recommended a list of 100
> must read books to his nation this past week.

Hugo Chavez to present Obama with book by Vladimir Lenin

30.05.200

<http://www.itar-tass.com/eng/level2.html?NewsID=13994788&PageNum=0>


CARACAS, May 30 (Itar-Tass) – President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela has
prepared a new gift for his U.S. counterpart, Barack Obama.

As he spoke on a TV and radio talk show ‘Hello, Mr. President’ Friday,
Chavez answered one of its participants who asked him if Obama had
read the book ‘The Open Veins of Latin America’ by the Uruguayan
author Eduardo Galeano, which Chavez had given him as a present at the
summit of the Americas in April.

Chavez said he had no information on this but he was thinking of a new
present to hand to Obama at the next summit – Vladimir Lenin’s
political work ‘What Is To Be Done?’

It was not immediately clear, however, if Chavez, who is building an
original version of Latin American socialism in his country, said it
seriously or with a pinch of irony.

The news about the present that Chavez handed to Obama at the summit
in Trinidad and Tobago propelled the book, which Galeano wrote about
thirty years ago, to the top of the popularity charts.

This story of centuries-long plunder of Latin America’s riches was
immediately translated into English and fell into the category of
best-selling books in Internet shops.

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