I’m not familiar with the work of Noam Chomsky but I note here two things. First, he was quoted by Hugo Chávez in a recent interview with the Nation.
Greg Grandin: But how do you explain the intransigence of Roberto Micheletti, the president installed by the coup? … So why wouldn’t the de facto government want a negotiated solution, allowing a symbolic return of Zelaya to the presidency for a short period in order to legitimate the outcome of the election?
Hugo Chávez: Noam Chomsky has a book, which I read for the first time when I was in Spain, called Fear of Democracy. There is your answer. Fear of democracy.
Second, according to Gideon Rachman of the FT, Chomsky’s works have been banned from Guantanamo Bay. Here’s Rachman:
But I see it another way. Obama has said that he is banning the use of torture on prisoners at Guantanamo. Subjecting them to the works of Noam Chomsky is clearly incompatible with the torture ban.
