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Bacchus4.0

(6,837 posts)
Wed May 27, 2015, 09:10 AM May 2015

Ven says it's working on a way to kill Google and Mozilla so no one knows about its currency collaps

http://www.businessinsider.com/venezuela-to-block-currency-information-2015-5

Some ruling-party politicians in Venezuela will stop at nothing to hide the jaw-dropping fall of the country's currency, the bolivar, against the dollar.

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Citizens aren't supposed to know that, but they do because of because an app called DolarToday has all the information.

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Alemán went on TV Monday and said "the problem is that we rely on servers like Google and Firefox that are search-engine technology that we don't have under our national control."

Alemán said that Venezuala's Ministry of Science, Technology, and Innovation was working on a way to use the country's satellites "so that we can assert our independence and control this situation."



Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/venezuela-to-block-currency-information-2015-5#ixzz3bLOPHyNe
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Ven says it's working on a way to kill Google and Mozilla so no one knows about its currency collaps (Original Post) Bacchus4.0 May 2015 OP
Maduro cannot stray from the path laid out by Saint Chavez. DetlefK May 2015 #1
They will cheat. They've already falsified census info to show that more people Bacchus4.0 May 2015 #2

DetlefK

(16,423 posts)
1. Maduro cannot stray from the path laid out by Saint Chavez.
Wed May 27, 2015, 09:32 AM
May 2015

He has to continue his policies, no matter what. Chavez is his legitimization. If Maduro starts doing reforms, more and more demands for more and more reforms will trickle in and soon Chavez's Venezuela would be no more.

And if the old Venezuela of socialists-vs-capitalists is gone and moderate elements have a chance, how is Maduro supposed to whip up support? Demonizing "the others" and blaming "the others" is how he keeps his country together right now.

Bacchus4.0

(6,837 posts)
2. They will cheat. They've already falsified census info to show that more people
Wed May 27, 2015, 09:39 AM
May 2015

live in chavista areas and "reduced" the populations for this years elections. There is nothing to indicate that they will not continue jailing opposition candidates. I imagine they will soon start disqualifying opposition candidates prior to the election.

The narco-government there will never freely relinquish power.

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