This article notes the New York Times obituary error, but confuses the NATLFED associates, who misled the New York Times, with New York Times staff.

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New York Press, 3/29-4/4/95

Two fellas we would not like to be right now are the Times cub reporters who provided reporter Robert D. McFadden with the background info on "labor organizer" Eugenio Perente-Ramos, who died on March 18. McFadden's obituary, which appeared in the paper on March 20, characterized Perente-Ramos as a committed farm labor organizer and "close associate of Cesar Chavez." It neglected to point out, as a longer-than-the-original-piece correction noted the next day, that Perente-Ramos also ran a group "characterized as a cult . . . that recruited troubled young people, housed them in communal quarters and 'brainwashed' them . . ." Further, Perente-Ramos' "labor activities and association with Mr. Chavez had been exaggerated." Ooops. McFadden's name was not in the correction, but the associates' sure were. Can you say see ya?