While In Cuba, Venezuelan President Supposedly Rules Via Twitter
from the #140charactergoverning dept
While Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez was recently in Cuba to undergo cancer treatment, several media outlets reported on Chavez using Twitter to run Venezuela. Tweets included an approval of a million dollar garbage collection program and the announcement of a new park in Caracas. As fantastic as the headlines dealing with this news sound, a little nuance is probably needed. Any of the actual decision-making was obviously done in more than 140 characters, and only the actual announcements of decisions were made by Chavez on Twitter. Instead of using it to 'run Venezuela', it would be more accurate to say that Twitter has allowed Chavez to retain a strong image in the run up to upcoming presidential elections. Probably a better strategy than censoring the internet.
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Although he does understand that he can't get out of sight or he will be out of mind.
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Cancer FTW !!
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2) rule Venezuela
3) ????
4) profit !!!
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don't run the economy into the ground in such a way that you can't bail with your takings, or piss off enough of the wrong people badly enough that you get assassinated. (or thrown in jail, i suppose.)
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He is, in the words of Tolkien, a "wise fool". That's what makes dangerous. He is a traitor to the poor in whose name he governs, and an enemy of democracy in Latin America. But he hides it very well.
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Wonder who taught that fat little pig to tweet?
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