[Marxism] Chavez/Chomsky clarification

[Sayan Bhattacharyya]

>From http://www.slate.com/id/2151086/:

Lost in Translation …

An Editors' Note in the NYT clarifies a, er,
grave mistake made more than once in the paper recently. According to
the Times, Hugo Chavez said at a press conference that he regretted
not having met Noam Chomsky before he died. As the paper was all too
happy to point out, the esteemed author and scholar is still alive!
But, as the Times notes today: "In fact, what Mr. Chavez said was, 'I
am an avid reader of Noam Chomsky, as I am of an American professor
who died some time ago.' Two sentences later Mr. Chavez named John
Kenneth Galbraith, the Harvard economist who died last April. … Mr.
Chavez was speaking in Spanish at the news conference, but
simultaneous English translation by the United Nations left out the
reference to Mr. Galbraith…"