Open arteries for Latin America

In 2009, the Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez visited the United States of America, and Eduardo Galeano's "Open Veins of Latin America" was presented. The book was ranked 60,280 on Amazon books. Newspapers took a picture of the two presidents with the book between them, and it was published the next day. That day, the book jumped to the number 2 best-selling in America and number 11 in Europe. Galeano did not know when he was thirty-one years old that writing "Open Veins" in 1970... would be one of the most controversial books in the entire history of Latin America... The book that was banned upon its release in most Latin American countries and was a subject of debate among all political and youth classes. The book that represented a guiding light for a whole generation of Latin Americans for many decades in their ongoing struggle with internal and external forces, and still does. This book is a picture of the monster that devours humans, money, forests, and rivers.