are born in uruguay and what happened at the time the military took over? you're the editor as a young man i read that when i was first involved it was a left-wing weekly publication very famous at the time. >> guest: perhaps the best. yes i was in jail for a brief period then i went to argentina where i founded and began a cultural magazine. which was a very successful experience. we were selling we are talk about selling and not selling is important but it is your survival. it was a good experience because in the culture i was consecrated entirely to the cultural subjects. so maybe 1,000 copies in the best case. and we sold 35,000. which was the proof and the evidence that we were in touch with people nor not the usual clients for these sort of thing is. we were reaching people aside from the usual space where you find them or is in bookstores. this was because that coulter was not only the production but all of the expressions collective expressions of identity. and all of the ways people find to communicate. so for us it was a command and that is why th

except in uruguay during five for six months "the open veins of latin america" could enter freely in the military prisons because the sons of god and that it was a textbook on anatomy. "the open veins of latin america", a textbook on madison and books of medicine or not for been. so after this short time they realized it was not exactly this. >> host: apropos of it being burned i want to tell an anecdote that i told soon after it came out and my recollection is that i had the book with me when i was in chile in 1973 when the military coup overthrew the government of salvador and i stay on her for six years to write about the peanut shea dictatorship and that the book, your book i think this is a distinction would have been among the books that i had to burn in order to be able to say in chilly along with all of the books about the government, the democratically elected socialist president of chile who was overthrown and introduced 17 years of dictatorship by the right wing regime. and that was an amazing experience that books before an american like me, the books would be burned and