Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez presented this book Open Veins Of Latin America: Five Centuries Of The Pillage Of A Continent written by Uruguyan Author Eduardo Galeano to President Obama, at the Summit Of Americas held in Trinidad, and that has done wonders to the book’s sales. Ranked by Amazon.com at position 54,295, the book saw its fortunes instantly climbing to the second place, it now vanishing out of shelves from book stores across the world and a further several thousand copies ordered.  The book traces 500 years of Latin American history right from the days of the Spanish conquest to the present day.President Obama though surprised thought it “was a nice gesture”, he being a reader.