![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It was one of only two books novelist Isabel Allende hurriedly packed in her suitcase when she fled Chile, after her cousin, the democratically-elected President Salvador Allende, was overthrown in Pinochet’s coup in 1973. Obama thought he was being given a sort of ‘little red book’ of Chávez’s sayings, but Galeano’s Open Veins was a book that had been cherished by the left in Latin America for decades. Barack Obama looked bemused when, during his first visit to Latin America, Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez thrust a paperback into his hands. Within days, the book, Open Veins of Latin America by Uruguayan journalist Eduardo Galeano, had become a best-seller. ![]()
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