Ironically enough, he says, the government in Venezuela doesn't have the necessary rights to mass produce and distribute TheOpenVeinsofLatinAmerica, the book which Mr Chavez recently popularised.
For example, Eduardo Galeano is a Uruguayan writer who became famous at a young age when he wrote "The OpenVeinsofLatinAmerica", a humorous account ofLatin American economic history viewed as systematic exploitation of natural resources by developed countries and imperial powers.