| p>Not long ago, Hugo Chavez of Venezuela told the | | | | take all the natural wealth away and economically |
| World Media that President Barack Obama was | | | | enslave the people. Interestingly enough, isn't Hugo |
| naïve about Latin America and needed to do a | | | | Chavez doing the same thing as he becomes an |
| little research and reading to understand all the evil that | | | | immovable dictator, removing democracy, promising |
| the United States had caused upon Latin America. | | | | that which he cannot deliver, and selling his nation's |
| During the so-called Latin American Summit, Hugo | | | | natural wealth to other nations? |
| Chavez used an old media propaganda trick and | | | | And since he is inefficient at it, there is now much less |
| handed the young newcomer to the white house a | | | | wealth coming into Venezuela, throwing it into |
| book. That book was: | | | | permanent economic recession. To top it off the |
| "The Open Veins of Latin America - Five Centuries of | | | | president of Venezuela has engaged in rigging the |
| the Pillage of a Continent" By Eduardo Galeano, (1973) | | | | elections of Nicaragua, El Salvador, Ecuador, Argentina |
| and reprinted in (1997) translated by Cedric Belfrage. | | | | and plans on bringing everyone into his way of doing |
| Now you ask exactly what is this book about? Open | | | | things. All this at a time when what he is doing isn't |
| Veins of Latin America almost sounds as if the US left | | | | working. |
| them bleeding, so what exactly was Hugo Chavez | | | | This anti-American sentiment will cause more poverty |
| implying? Well, it was of course done as a political | | | | to the emerging nations of Latin America, than any of |
| grandstanding event to make a point, but was that | | | | the perceived foreign influence has ever done. If this |
| point actually made, and why this book, it was relatively | | | | gentleman is not prevented from forcing his will on all |
| obscure to even those who are well-versed in Latin | | | | Latin Americans all the hard work to improve the lives |
| American History. | | | | there will be lost, so maybe President Obama ought to |
| The premise is almost a rant against capitalism and | | | | send him a few books on Capitalism, as Hugo Chavez |
| how foreign forces came in to exploit the labor for | | | | is very naïve in the reality of benefits it brings. |
| sugar, agriculture, raw materials, oil, cocao, and thus, | | | | Think on this. |