The 95-year-old intellectual was admitted to a Brazilian hospital to recover from a massive stroke he suffered in 2023.
Chomsky is admired for his political activism, characterized by a strong criticism of contemporary capitalism and United States foreign policy. (Photo: Internet).
The American intellectual Noam Chomsky was discharged this Tuesday from a hospital in the Brazilian city of São Paulo and will continue his medical treatment at home, the Beneficiência Portuguesa hospital reported.
The statement from the private medical center, which is signed by the executive director, Renato Vieira, and the cardiologist Marcelo Sampaio, refutes the rumors that went viral on social networks about the supposed death of this left-wing leader.
Even the São Paulo office of the Workers’ Party, the formation of the Brazilian president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, came to accept the rumor as good and express “gratitude” for Chomsky’s legacy and his “comradeship in the struggle.”
The 95-year-old intellectual was admitted to that hospital in the Brazilian city, where he was recovering from a massive stroke that he suffered last year and that has caused him difficulties speaking and moving the right side of his body, according to what he published ago. a few days the newspaper Folha de São Paulo.
According to this medium, the wife of the philosopher and linguist, the Brazilian Valeria Wasserman, decided to transfer him to this city by means of an ambulance plane to change the treatment he was receiving in the United States and thus accelerate his recovery.
Chomsky, professor emeritus at the University of Arizona, is considered the father of modern linguistics and is the author of more than a hundred books in his field of specialty, but also on geopolitical issues such as the conflict in the Middle East.
