Chavez gave Obama the “idiot’s bible”
[Link: www.realclearpolitics.com...]
Hugo Chavez’s gift to President Obama at the recent Summit of the Americas — a copy of Eduardo Galeano’s “Open Veins of Latin America” — has many people wondering what the fuss is about.
A decade ago, I and the other two co-authors of the “Guide to the Perfect Latin American Idiot” devoted a chapter to refuting the historical and ideological fallacies contained in Galeano’s tract, which we called the “idiot’s bible.” Everything that has happened in the Western Hemisphere since the book appeared in 1971 has belied Galeano’s arguments and predictions. But I guess Chavez has given it the kiss of life and, since people are asking, here I go again.
The author claims that relations between Latin America and rich countries have been so pernicious that “everything … has always been transmuted into European — and later United States — capital.” Actually, for years that relationship has transmuted into the exact opposite: Latin American capital. In the last seven years alone, Latin America has benefited from…
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