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... -- Robert Naiman Just Foreign Policy www.justforeignpolicy.org
