Book Chavez Gave Obama Becomes Best Seller

April 22. 2009

U.S. president Barack Obama (left) Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez (right)

The book Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez presented to U.S. president Barack Obama titled “The Open Veins of Latin America,” has become a best seller in the week since the gifting. Oprah's book club has been dethroned.

Obama quipped, “I thought it was one of Chávez’s books. I was going to give him one of mine.”

The Book Chávez Gave Obama

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. “I thought it was one of Chávez’s books. I was going to give him one of mine,” Obama quipped.

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