On Saturday, April 18, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez publicly handed President Obama a copy of Eduardo Galeano’s seminal tome on the foreign exploitation of Latin America, Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent .
By Monday, April 20, the book — first published in 1971 — had skyrocketed to #2 on Amazon.com’s bestseller list.
Yesterday, Henry Rosenbloom, Publisher at Scribe, snapped up ANZ rights to Open Veins of Latin America.
Originally published in 1971 in Spanish and in 1973 in English, Open Veins of Latin America has been reprinted many times and remains standard reading for any educated Latin American, and for most Latin scholars.
Written by Uruguayan author and journalist, Eduardo Galeano, Open Veins of Latin America looks at the impact of foreign intervention in Latin America in the past five centuries. From the obliteration of indigenous people by Spanish conquistadors to the destructive cycles of foreign debt, investment and capitalism, Galeano lays out the Latin American saga from 1492 to the 20th century.
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