When Venezuelan strongman Hugo Chavez gave President Obama a copy of Eduardo Galeano's left-wing screed Open Veins of Latin America last week, Obama laughed it off, saying, "I'm a reader." Let's hope Obama also reads Alvaro Vargas Llosa's takedown of Galeano. Llosa: "Everything that has happened in the Western Hemisphere since the book appeared in 1971 has belied Galeano's arguments and predictions." After sitting through Sandinista strongman and Nicaraguan president Daniel Ortega's 50-minute diatribe against the United States, Obama said, "I'm grateful that President Ortega did not blame me for things that happened when I was three months old." Maybe he'll ignore the loony left thesis of a book written when he was 10?