Chavez: Don’t Fucking Speak English In Venezuela!
Hey! How about Fuck You, marricone?
CARACAS, Venezuela - President Hugo Chavez’s government is taking its battle against U.S. “imperialism” into Venezuelans’ dictionaries, urging state phone company workers to avoid English-language business and tech terms.
Through a campaign launched Monday, newly nationalized CANTV hopes to wean employees and others from words like “staff” (”equipo” is preferred), “marketing” (”mercadeo”) and “password” (”contrasena”).
Stickers and banners printed up by the company exhort Venezuelans to “Say it in Spanish. Say it with pride.”
The Communications and Information Ministry said in a statement that Venezuelans must recover Spanish words that are “threatened by sectors that have started a battle for the cultural domination of our nations.”
Other English words targeted include “mouse” (the company prefers “raton”), “meeting” (”reunion”) and “sponsor” (”patrocinador”) - all of which have become common in Latin American countries.
The leftist president has sought to counter what he calls U.S. cultural imperialism on all fronts, financing Venezuelan cinema as an alternative to the “dictatorship of Hollywood” and forcing radio stations to play more Venezuelan music.
English is still taught in schools alongside other languages, however. And Chavez himself often breaks playfully into English during speeches, sometimes to salute his close friend, former Cuban leader Fidel Castro, saying: “How are you, Fidel?”
(AP)
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Chinga tu madre, puto.
That pic is…not as bad as the Berkeley ones.
February 26th, 2008 at 3:21 pm[[financing Venezuelan cinema as an alternative to the “dictatorship of Hollywood”]]
Well I guess he might have a point, Hollyweird sucks so much dick that if I was a dictator I’d kick it in the cunt also.
February 26th, 2008 at 3:29 pmI think Chavez is pretty funny.
Trash piling in the streets? Nationalized companies tanking? Economy going to shit? Government filled with corruption?
Do something that’s supposedly symbolic, yet utterly useless, and spout some rhetoric.
Just goes to show, no matter where you are, from D.C. to 3rd world shitholes, all politicans are the same.
February 26th, 2008 at 3:34 pmChupame, pendejo!
Chupa filha da puta, Jabba!
February 26th, 2008 at 3:39 pmhow does such an incompetent piece of crap lead a country? too bad the coup didnt succeed, or should i say too bad it didnt hold.
chavez
February 26th, 2008 at 4:34 pm¡Hey! ¿Cómo sobre vete a la mierda, marricone?
February 26th, 2008 at 5:07 pmHe makes it sound like spanish is an indigenous language! what a dumbass
February 26th, 2008 at 5:13 pmLMFAO!!! We feel his pain!
February 26th, 2008 at 5:16 pmTJ, if he wants to do it right why not use, what was it the Mayans or Incas that originally lived there? And still do, look at who his base is, the descendents of the original inhabitants before the Spainish got there.
February 26th, 2008 at 7:05 pmhttp://www.liveleak.com/view?i=cd6_1188173263
February 27th, 2008 at 5:25 amAwesome pic, but he’s not wrong on this point (He may, however, be wrong on every other point). We don’t want a two culture society and neither does he.
February 27th, 2008 at 6:06 am