"The Perfect Latin American Idiot's Bible"

That's how Alvaro Vargas Llosa describes, Eduardo Galeano's Open Veins of Latin America, the book given by President Hugo Rafael Chávez Frías to President Barack Hussein Obama — Regift, Please! Says the reviewer, "Everything that has happened in the Western Hemisphere since the book appeared in 1971 has belied Galeano's arguments and predictions."

I never read the book, but from my time as an change student in Chile, I remember Las venas abiertas de América Latina being the singular most popular book among the local students.