Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent

[Postman]

http://www.amazon.com/Open-Veins-Latin-America-Centurie...

Chavez handed Obama this book. Looks very interesting, almost Chomskyish....

[msongs]

1. thank gosh the original inhabitants never pillaged each other :-) nt

[malaise]

2. It's a classic

Many of us are cracking up at the ignorance of the M$Greedia's hacks. The book was translated 0ver 30 years ago.

Galeano has been on Democracy Now. He has his own website. Indeed he's one of the most popular lefties in this hemisphere.

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What's more it's one big lie that it's only about American imperialism.

[DCKit]

3. Please. A friend wants to visit Spain to see what they've done with his peoples stolen wealth.

And here we are, still playing at empire, despite numerous examples of how badly it always turns out.