Venezuela to Provide Children with 50,000 Mini Laptops

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Rather than providing FARC with rocket launchers, we find out the truth: The dull, boring news that Chavez is in fact providing children with laptop computers.

This week the Venezuelan Education Ministry began its program, dubbed Project Canaima, to provide primary schools with mini laptops, and incorporate the technology into the education system.

While schools are on vacation this week, the ministry will be conducting workshops for teachers on using the computers as educational tools. Starting in September, when the school semester begins, the ministry anticipates providing 50,000 laptop computers to over 1,150 schools nationally.

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President Hugo Chavez said in March, "We're going to put computers in the classrooms. The teachers will have their computers connected and every desk will have a computer, every child will have a little computer."

http://www.venezuelanalysis.com/news/4672">Venezuela Analysis

[Judi Lynn]

1. Once again they have arranged a beautiful trade agreement, this time with Portugal,

making a fantastic, equitable exchange for products both countries need. From the article:

The batch is the first in a total of 350,000 computers that Portugal has agreed to send to Venezuela as part of an oil trading agreement between the two countries. Venezuela also hopes to set up its own assembly plant for the mini laptops as part of a technology transfer agreement.

Very civilized way of doing business.

Wonderful step forward for the children.

Thanks for the information.

[Peace Patriot]

2. Yup, that Chavez sure is a "dictator"...

...a "dictator" who wants his people to have free, unfettered access to all the information in the world!

He must think that his 'dictatorship' over Venezuela, his 'corruption,' his 'suitcase full of money to Cristina Fernandez', his 'funding' of FARC guerrillas, his 'drug trafficking,' his 'weapons trafficking,' his 'militarism,' his 'shutdown of the media,' his 'purchasing' the votes of the poor with social programs, and all of his 'tyrannical' madness will escape internet investigation. Or maybe he plans to program the computers to filter out his 'crimes.'

But, no, the computers will be OPEN SOURCE. Huh. The people can write their own programs? They can even review the OPEN SOURCE code by which their votes are counted? There must be some what that this is 'Stalinist tyranny.' I know. The people will be 'grateful' to Chavez for the OPEN SOURCE computers, and 'dictatorially' keep voting for him. It's the 'tyranny of the mob,' 'the dictatorship of the proletariat.' They get what they want, no matter what our Bushwhacks and DINOs say about it. Now that's 'tyranny'!