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VP: Chavismo "loyalty card" in Venezuela is more popular than Facebook and Instagram!
Delcy Rodríguez says that the national system is more popular than FacebookDolarToday / Dec 1, 2018 @ 8:00 p.m.
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translated from Spanish
Delcy Rodríguez says that the national system is more popular than Facebook
The government of Nicolás Maduro congratulated this Friday that its subsidy program, controlled by an electronic card, is more popular in Venezuela than the social network Facebook, which it criticizes as a mainstay of capitalism.
The vice president, Delcy Rodríguez, said that the Patria System "has almost 19 million registered people", while data disseminated by specialized portals indicate that Facebook adds about 13 million users in Venezuela.
"In positive we have won Facebook in Venezuela, we have won the technology companies that are the mainstay of the capitalist model. Today in Venezuela, a model made in Venezuela, beats Facebook and Instagram, "Rodríguez said during the inauguration of a science and technology fair in Caracas.
The official also highlighted that Venezuela is one of the countries that most uses QR technology (storage and reading of data), implemented on a card with which Venezuelans access subsidies and socialist government bonds.
Maduro justifies the use of this document, called "the identity card of the fatherland", as a way to avoid intermediation in the delivery of food and subsidies to the most impoverished sectors, given the severe economic crisis.
But the opposition says that it is a social control mechanism that has even been used to mobilize pro-government militancy during electoral processes.
Last Wednesday, two US senators asked the government of Donald Trump to investigate the links between the Chinese state telecommunications giant ZTE and the Maduro government, for allegedly providing the technology for the country's identity card.
Republican Marco Rubio and Democrat Chris Van Hollen echoed a Reuters report, according to which ZTE helped Caracas develop a database to monitor Venezuelans since 2016, through the electronic card.
"We are concerned that ZTE, in creating this database for the Venezuelan government, has violated export controls and US sanctions laws, as well as the terms of the June 2018 agreement of the Department of Commerce with ZTE." indicated the legislators.
Washington maintains strong pressure on Maduro's government, which he calls a "dictatorship," which includes financial sanctions since 2017.
The government of Nicolás Maduro congratulated this Friday that its subsidy program, controlled by an electronic card, is more popular in Venezuela than the social network Facebook, which it criticizes as a mainstay of capitalism.
The vice president, Delcy Rodríguez, said that the Patria System "has almost 19 million registered people", while data disseminated by specialized portals indicate that Facebook adds about 13 million users in Venezuela.
"In positive we have won Facebook in Venezuela, we have won the technology companies that are the mainstay of the capitalist model. Today in Venezuela, a model made in Venezuela, beats Facebook and Instagram, "Rodríguez said during the inauguration of a science and technology fair in Caracas.
The official also highlighted that Venezuela is one of the countries that most uses QR technology (storage and reading of data), implemented on a card with which Venezuelans access subsidies and socialist government bonds.
Maduro justifies the use of this document, called "the identity card of the fatherland", as a way to avoid intermediation in the delivery of food and subsidies to the most impoverished sectors, given the severe economic crisis.
But the opposition says that it is a social control mechanism that has even been used to mobilize pro-government militancy during electoral processes.
Last Wednesday, two US senators asked the government of Donald Trump to investigate the links between the Chinese state telecommunications giant ZTE and the Maduro government, for allegedly providing the technology for the country's identity card.
Republican Marco Rubio and Democrat Chris Van Hollen echoed a Reuters report, according to which ZTE helped Caracas develop a database to monitor Venezuelans since 2016, through the electronic card.
"We are concerned that ZTE, in creating this database for the Venezuelan government, has violated export controls and US sanctions laws, as well as the terms of the June 2018 agreement of the Department of Commerce with ZTE." indicated the legislators.
Washington maintains strong pressure on Maduro's government, which he calls a "dictatorship," which includes financial sanctions since 2017.
https://dolartoday.com/pobre-diabla-delcy-rodriguez-asegura-que-el-sistema-patria-es-mas-popular-que-facebook/
The problem is, the Chavez Loyalty Card doesn't offer subsidized anything to the poor and needy. It offers control over El Pueblo. Need gasoline, cooking gas, medicine, medical care, food? Then you'll need to have the Carnet, which tells Chavismo if you have been a good Chavista or not. Have you been wearing your red shirt? Have you attended enough rallies? Have you been attending the weekly meetings in your commune? Tsk tsk... you ought to be better about these things if you want your monthly CLAP food box.