Posted on 08/20/2006 10:44:30 PM PDT by 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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Atlas Shrugged
NO CITGO GAS!!
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.
A fitting cartoon from the talented Eric Allie...a brilliant conservative cartoonist.
China is putting all of its chess pieces in strong positions. The US better be paying attention. Even with pawns like Chavez.
China needs oil even more than we do.
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