March 5, 2012

The Independent corrects a false claim about Hugo Chavez:

An article in our foreign pages recently alleged that President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela had indulged in a “homophobic rant” against a political rival. We now accept that President Chavez did no such thing. We are happy to set the record straight.

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Craig Silverman (craig@craigsilverman.ca) is an award-winning journalist and the founder of Regret the Error, a blog that reports on media errors and corrections, and trends…
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