Monday, April 20, 2009

Forget Oprah, try the Chavez/Obama Book Club

At the Summit for the Americas this weekend, Hugo Chavez gave a book to Barack Obama. As of today, the book, Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent by Eduardo Galeano, is #2 on Amazon’s bestseller list.

Chavez announces next choice for Hugo’s Book Club via MobyLives

It was a shocking moment, if only because it was the sort of thing that no one would have thought to do with our previous president: When Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez met President Barack Obama on Saturday, he gave him a book. Chance for frank Americas dialogue via Al Jazeera

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