Tuesday, June 2, 2009

Chavez: My Next Gift For Obama Will Be Lenin Book

From: The Huffington Post

In this photo released by Miraflores Press Office, Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez gesture during his radio and television show "Hello President" in Maracaibo, Venezuela, Thursday, May 28, 2009. Chavez began what he says will be a marathon four-day television and radio program as he marks the 10th anniversary of his program. (AP Photo/Miraflores Press Office)

CARACAS, Venezuela — President Hugo Chavez says he has a new book for President Barack Obama: "What is to be Done?" by communist Vladimir Lenin, founder of the Soviet state.

Chavez says he'll "give it to Obama at the next meeting."

"What is to be Done?" is Lenin's political treatise on the role of intellectuals and the proletariat in promoting revolution, written more than a decade before he led the Bolshevik takeover of Russia in 1917.

Chavez gave Obama a copy of "Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent" by Eduardo Galeano at an April summit.

The book jumped the next day to the No. 2 seller on Amazon.com.

Chavez spoke Friday on a marathon, anniversary edition of his "Hello President" television show.






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