You will recall that before Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez began to rival Oprah's scale of book sales with his presentation of a copy of Eduardo Galeano's Open Veins of Latin America to President Obama earlier this year, he helped Chomsky sell out his Hegemony or Survival, after referencing it in his 2006 UN General Assembly address. Today, we learn that Chomsky is visiting Venezuela, where he has been praised by Chavez as "among the intellectuals who have helped most in the fight against the imperial hegemony." [El Universal] [Image: Terra Magazine]