Given its currency with contemporary Latin American leaders (Chávez is not alone), it may come as a surprise to learn that, years after the publication of “Open Veins,” Galeano decided that the book “reduced history to just one dimension.” Part polemic, part history, and part “talk with the people” “Open Veins” has at its heart what many critics now consider a simplistic model of dependency, and a fuzzy prediction that Latin America is “entering times of rebellion and change.” Its continued popularity has much to do with its style. It has sold steadily ever since, in Latin America and around the world, with more than fifty Spanish editions, and translations into more than a dozen languages. Galeano, who is Uruguayan, wrote it in the last three months of 1970, and was eventually forced into exile as the book grew in popularity. imperialism and the ruling élites of Latin America from a Marxist-Leninst perspective), the book has a fascinating history. Whatever one thinks of its message (it denounces both U.S.
Though I’m sure “ Un Brazalete Tricolor” is every bit as riveting as “Dreams from My Father,” Obama should be glad to be in possession of “Open Veins,” which shot to number eleven on Amazon within hours of Obama receiving it. I was going to give him one of mine,” Obama quipped. President Obama got in several good lines during his trip to meet with Latin American leaders on Saturday, but the funniest came when reporters asked about the book that Hugo Chávez, the president of Venezuela, gave him: “ The Open Veins of Latin America,” by Eduardo Galeano.
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