Venezuela - Chavez repeats warning to CANTV, says China will help set up telecom network

AP Worldstream ^ | August 21, 2006

[HAL9000]

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CARACAS, Venezuela, Aug 21, 2006 (AP Worldstream via COMTEX News Network) --

President Hugo Chavez repeated a warning Sunday that he will bring Venezuela's largest telecom back under government control if it doesn't make court-ordered pension payments to ex-employees, and said China will help build a competing, state-run telecommunications network.

Venezuela's largest publicly traded company, CANTV is the dominant provider of fixed-line telephone service in Venezuela. Formerly run by the state, it was privatized in 1991.

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[ConservativeMind]

Atlas Shrugged

[Humidston]

NO CITGO GAS!!

[Nathan Zachary]

If I were CANTV, I'd take what I could, and burn the rest and tell Chavez to bend over. Let them use string and coconut shells. It's fitting for what Chavez is turning the place into.

[Red6]

There we go again-

Centralization, control the media....... Hmmmmmmm, I'm shocked I tell ya.

Unfortunately these actions are never "for the people". What they are really about is power and control over the media. In the long run it's the people that loose. That's we you sell them this big sticking terd the way he does. Unfortunately uneducated people do fall for it.

[rlmorel]

A fitting cartoon from the talented Eric Allie...a brilliant conservative cartoonist.

[Clock King]

China is putting all of its chess pieces in strong positions. The US better be paying attention. Even with pawns like Chavez.

[dr_who_2]

China needs oil even more than we do.