Venezuela gets a second phone factory

[Peace Patriot]

Venezuela Inaugurates its Second Mobile Phone Factory

By TAMARA PEARSON - VENEZUELANALYSIS.COM

Merida, May 23rd, 2010 (Venezuelanalysis.com) – On Friday afternoon Chavez inaugurated a new mobile phone factory, the Electronic Industry Plant Orinoquia, S.A in Caracas, a further step in increasing Venezuela’s technological independence.

Venezuelan state radio station RNV reports that local communities and government will participate in the development and execution of the factory’s projects, and according to Chavez, workers in the factory were chosen by the communal councils.

Chavez said the factory was part of “Venezuelan technological development” and a result of cooperation with China. China is producing the phone parts which are then assembled in the Venezuelan factory.

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According to (Venezuela’s Minister for science and technology, Ricardo Menendez) the two factories combined should produce a total of 2 million phones per year, and currently Venezuelans are buying 7 million phones per year.

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According to the hysterical rightwing--"the squalid ones," as Chavez calls them--and their corpo-fascist press echo chamber, Venezuela is falling apart. Odd how Venezuelan just keeps trucking on--starting phone factories, inaugurating thermo-electric plants, building railroads, opening new maternity hospitals and bashing financial speculators and banksters.

http://venezuelanalysis.com/news/5383
http://venezuelanalysis.com/news/5379
http://venezuelanalysis.com/news/5377
http://venezuelanalysis.com/news/5374
http://venezuelanalysis.com/analysis/5376

We hear one propaganda line after another ripple through the corpo-fascist press from their copywriters in Langley--first "Chavez is a dictator," now Chavez is "incompetent"--a non-stop litany of faults, failures and falsehoods, with NEVER A REALITY CHECK, and never ANY acknowledgement of the Chavez government's achievements--huge reductions in poverty, huge increases in school enrollment, low debt, low unemployment, good credit, high cash reserves, awesome economic growth most of it in the PRIVATE sector during the 2003 to 2008 period, universal free medical care and more. Nothing. Nada. A drought hits Venezuela and they have an energy shortage problem, which the government immediately begins to address, and Venezuela is falling apart. The distortion is amazing.

True, Venezuelanalysis is pro-Chavez government and rarely criticizes it (thought they just published a scorching criticism of government bureaucracy). I'm posting these articles from VA for BALANCE. There is NO BALANCE in corpo-fascist 'news' coverage of this country, nor of course from the "Sarah Palins" of Venezuela--the rightwing opposition (nor from the anti-Chavez crowd here at DU).

[naaman fletcher]

1. thanks

First, thanks for acknowledging that VA is pro-chavez. I think you are the only pro-chavez poster here who is willing to state that. And yes, posting news from all sources is a good thing.

I agree with your post in another thread that of course the US would have been much better off building railroads and such as opposed to fighting wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

However, it is not necessarily the case that building a phone factory is a good thing. Anyone can build a phone factory, the issue is if the phones will be in demand by the market at the price they are offered.

The cell phone industry is EXTRAORDINARILY COMPETITIVE. It is almost certain that this factory will be a loser.

[Judi Lynn]

2. You ARE so right. All we've had to operate with has been pure propaganda based drool,

and we NEED other sources and should pursue them. You are courageous looking at these sources because the corpo-clowns always set up a howl when anything appears which wasn't spun with defference to the directives from the U.S. State Department, apparently the ultimate authority in the eyes of rightests, on Venezuela.

Venezuela can USE new industry, and the anti-Chavists make that case every time they start gibbering about how Venezuela shouldn't expect to make its living through only one income stream:oil, completely ignoring the fact Venzuela's earlier agriculture and industry were destroyed in the rush for oil profits LONG, LONG ago, and done by the oligarchy.

Considering the fact Venezuela's first cell phone effort brought out the "human" howler monkeys to revile it as soon as it appeared, they are probably right on target going after a second line, since it's clear the first one did GREAT.

[Judi Lynn]

3. Just recommended your thread, and my rec. didn't show, which means

someone voided already.

Here's that recommendation, anyway! :woohoo:




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