Hugo Chavez to present Obama with book by Vladimir Lenin

Socialist President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela has prepared a new gift Obama. According to ITAR-TASS:

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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May 30, 2009 · Filed Under General Politics


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