Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez gestures during a visit to a telecommunications satellite station located at Captain Manuel Rios Aerial Base in Guárico state, Venezuela August 17, 2008. (Miraflores/Handout - /Reuters)
Posted on 08/17/2008 8:24:50 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
CARACAS (Reuters) – Washington-foe Venezuela plans to launch an observation satellite within five years to map its territory, President Hugo Chavez said on Sunday.
Venezuela's first satellite, named after independence hero Simon Bolivar, is for broadcast and telecommunications purposes and is due to be launched from China in November, Chavez said.
But major oil explorer Venezuela is seeking to build a second satellite to help map the vast South American country, Chavez said on his weekly television show.
"Who has got great multicolored maps of Venezuela? The Yankees," he said. "Now we are going to have our own. We have to get ready to launch the second satellite, which should be for observation, for images."
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Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez gestures during a visit to a telecommunications satellite station located at Captain Manuel Rios Aerial Base in Guárico state, Venezuela August 17, 2008. (Miraflores/Handout - /Reuters)
Chavez being both a puppet of Putin and the Chinese must be working out for him now. /sarc
Makes for a nice missle target
i’m sure it will have other uses also!
I’m sure we’ll have fun hijacking it for our own purposes when the time is right.
that chavez is paranoid.
he hasta be a nut!
Spain must have one up there somewhere he can nationalize when it passes over.
come to think of it,
he was just in paraguay the other day.
he’s all over the place.
meanwhile, he’s confiscating this and that at home.
He could probably buy it from Google much cheaper.
“named after independence hero Simon Bolivar”
What....a....surprise.
In other news, CONGRATULATIONS!!!
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