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Chavez Gives Obama Book —on Colonial Oppression

By Harry Kimball,  Newser Staff

Posted Apr 18, 2009 9:51 AM CDT

(Newser) – Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez gave President Obama a Spanish-language book today about the historical ravages visited on Latin America by colonial powers, Politico reports. The English title of the 1971 book by Eduardo Galeano is The Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the ...   Read full story »

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