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