Comments on: The $14 Cellphone Is Coming To Venezuela http://www.gearfuse.com/the-14-cellphone-is-coming-to-venezuela/ Gearfuse is a tech blog featuring news, views and opinions on the best of gadgets, gizmos, consumer electronics, hardware and more... Sun, 22 Nov 2009 21:47:45 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Niall Harbison http://www.gearfuse.com/the-14-cellphone-is-coming-to-venezuela/comment-page-1/#comment-169578 Niall Harbison Mon, 09 Mar 2009 21:04:38 +0000 http://www.gearfuse.com/?p=11606#comment-169578 Love the pic, is that real or photoshopped? They are trying to make it look like the Cuban revolutionairy ones! Love the pic, is that real or photoshopped? They are trying to make it look like the Cuban revolutionairy ones!

]]> By: Bonnie McFadden http://www.gearfuse.com/the-14-cellphone-is-coming-to-venezuela/comment-page-1/#comment-169568 Bonnie McFadden Mon, 09 Mar 2009 20:09:50 +0000 http://www.gearfuse.com/?p=11606#comment-169568 As a former American lawyer now living and teaching in Venezuela, I need to correct the mis-statements in your posting. There is nothing whatsoever "wacky" about President Chavez and his government. On the contrary, he is a brilliant visionary who is implementing programs which have brought enormous improvements into the lives of the majority of Venezuelan people. Some of those improvements are in the area of electronics: Venezuelan is already producing cheap computers and distributing them to students and villages throughout the country. The computers are being produced in Venezuela. The new, cheap cell phones are likewise being produced in Venezuela. Having a good communication system is essential to the economic development of the country. President Chavez recognizes that has recently launched a communications satellite which will bring internet access to every part of Venezuela. There are many Americans who would be very, very grateful for cheap computers, cheap cell phones and cheap internet access. There is much in Venezuela which the U.S. government would do well to copy. As a former American lawyer now living and teaching in Venezuela, I need to correct the mis-statements in your posting. There is nothing whatsoever “wacky” about President Chavez and his government. On the contrary, he is a brilliant visionary who is implementing programs which have brought enormous improvements into the lives of the majority of Venezuelan people.

Some of those improvements are in the area of electronics: Venezuelan is already producing cheap computers and distributing them to students and villages throughout the country. The computers are being produced in Venezuela.

The new, cheap cell phones are likewise being produced in Venezuela.

Having a good communication system is essential to the economic development of the country. President Chavez recognizes that has recently launched a communications satellite which will bring internet access to every part of Venezuela.

There are many Americans who would be very, very grateful for cheap computers, cheap cell phones and cheap internet access. There is much in Venezuela which the U.S. government would do well to copy.

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