[lbo-talk] Did Chavez really say Chomsky was dead, or was this an error by the NYT?

[Robert Naiman]

It's starting to look like Chavez never said that Chomsky was dead,
this was an NYT error. Chavez was talking about Galbraith, the elder,
as this reporting by Reuters indicates. Looks like the NYT bobbled it.

"In his New York appearance, Chavez invoked Bolivar and his other
favorite leaders and thinkers as he lectured Americans on their own
history and race relations, such as slavery and the conquest of Native
Americans.

The dark-skinned, mixed race leader told New Yorkers to read Abraham
Lincoln and Mark Twain as well as modern thinkers like Noam Chomsky
and John Kenneth Galbraith, lamenting he could not meet Galbraith
before he died in April at age 97."

http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/news/news-usa-venezuela-chavez.html

Join me in asking the NYT for verification or correction...

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Robert Naiman
Just Foreign Policy
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