The news that Noam Chomsky, linguist And activist among the best-known intellectuals of our time, he is hospitalized in hospital in Brazil (his partner’s hometown). Here she is recovering from a severe stroke that hit him in June 2023 and who, as confirmed by his wife Valeria, took the right side of his body. According to his old assistant Bev Stohl, quoted by the British online newspaper The Independent, “he can’t write, he can’t answer, but he has no pain. His eyes are open and he seems to be observing what is happening around him.”
Chomsky is currently in a facility St. Paul, where he was transferred by air ambulance guarded by two nurses once he recovered enough to leave the United States. A preview from the Brazilian newspaper Folha de S.Paulo had revealed how the 95 years old had difficulty speaking and had suffered a stroke about a year ago. All this was confirmed via email toAssociated Press by his wife, also adding that her husband follows the news and when he sees images of the war a Gaza, an issue he cares about a lot, raises his left arm with a gesture of complaint and anger. Chomsky receives visits daily from a neurologista speech therapist is one specialist of the lungs.
Born in Philadelphia in 1928Chomsky is considered an influential activist and critic of politics of his country, the United States, from the Middle East to Central America, as well as a scourge of the media he believes to be complacent. His books and essays are read and discussed by millions of people. Chomsky has long been a member of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and in 2017 he joined the College of Social & Behavioral Sciences at the University of Arizona, Tucson, where he held the position of Graduate Professor in linguistics. His book Syntactic Structures, released in 1957, it transformed the study of the subject, focusing on the thesis that human beings do not simply learn language, but are born with an ability innate which explains how they can formulate and understand sentences they have never seen or heard before.
