what i'm reading now

In the spring, President Obama attended the Summit of the Americas in Trinidad. On the second day of the conference Hugo Chavez, the president of Venezuela, gave our president a book, Open Veins of Latin America. I was curious about the book so I ordered it. It describes five hundred years of exploitation of Latin America by European countries and also by the United States. From the early explorers and conquistadors who enriched Spain, Portugal, and other countries with the gold and silver they sent home to the slave traders and sugar and coffee growers who enslaved native peoples and depleted the natural resourced of the land. I think it's good for Americans who reap the benefits of capitalism to see the other side of the story, where our wealth means the poverty of other people, our comfort is bought by the low wages of people who have no hope of lifting themselves from their condition. Read this book