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Professor Noam Chomsky is now claiming that an article based on an interview with the GUARDIAN was "dishonest" and "deceptive".
With a new link, the GUARDIAN posts the full transcript to dispute Chomsky.
In the interview, Chomsky said that Chavez has too much power and is "assaulting" Venezuela's democracy.
With a new link, the GUARDIAN posts the full transcript to dispute Chomsky.
In the interview, Chomsky said that Chavez has too much power and is "assaulting" Venezuela's democracy.
President Hugo Chavez has long enjoyed USA professor Noam Chomsky's praise for Venezuela's socialist revolution and echoed his denunciations of US imperialism.
"Concentration of executive power, unless it's very temporary and for specific circumstances, such as fighting world war two, is an assault on democracy. You can debate whether [Venezuela's] circumstances require it: internal circumstances and the external threat of attack, that's a legitimate debate. But my own judgment in that debate is that it does not."
Chomsky is especially disturbed by Chavez's treatment of former supreme court judge María Lourdes Afiuni.
"Judge Afiuni has suffered enough," writes Chomsky. "She has been subject to acts of violence and humiliations to undermine her human dignity. I am convinced that she must be set free."
