Today, I revisited the site in order to review the article and responses to it, but found the posted response section no longer there. They were accessible on the computer I was using when I first received the articles. I would loathe to discover their removal.
A friend sent me the articles in discussion from Boston Review. In them, particularly disturbing to me was how Chavez' words were fragmented and removed from context, in order to arm and propound what seemed a fallaciously conflated agenda. I appreciated finding such adept criticism beneath it, which included the full statement by Chavez before it'd been whittled down into a vehicle for defamation. A thorough refutation of the arguments made in BR, proved to me that its authors were at the very least, grasping for straws in erroneous territory. So articulate were the responses, that the article's authors were compelled to write the follow-up, in which they addressed the many criticisms in what seemed a peripheral, relative manner, instead of, for instance, justifying their editing of Chavez' statement in such a way as to support their thesis and obscure its meaning.