What's news is that Debray was absurdly identified by the Times as "a former adviser to President Francois Mitterrand of France, editor of Cahiers de Mediologie and the author of the forthcoming 'The God That Prevailed.'". I say absurdly because Debray is far better known as an old communist, a supporter of political violence, an unabashed admirer of Fidel Castro, and a guerrilla fighter alongside Che Guevara. His hatred of the United States even led him to defend Milosevic and Serbian genocide in the late 1990s. He's a Pinter with blood on his hands. Isn't this relevant information? Did the Times know this and decide to ignore it?
But Debray is also the husband of Elizabeth Burgos-Debray, the woman behind the fraudulent autobiography "I, Rigoberto Menchu." It's a piece of communist propaganda about the so-called life of a Quiche Mayan from Guatemala, and it was required reading for a generation of college students. Check out the story here.
