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Venezuela: Cheap Television Sets For All!

Posted by Soulskill on from the you're-next-radio-shack dept.

solareagle writes "Venezuelan President Maduro has declared war on 'bourgeois parasites' by taking over Daka, an electronics retailer similar to Best Buy. USA Today reports, 'National guardsmen, some of whom had assault rifles, were positioned around outlets of [Daka] ... Maduro has ordered to lower prices or face prosecution. Thousands of people lined up at the Daka stores hoping for a bargain after the government forced the companies to charge "fair" prices. "I want a Sony plasma television for the house," said Amanda Lisboa, 34, a business administrator who waited seven hours outside a Caracas store ... "It's going to be so cheap!" "This is for the good of the nation," Maduro said, referring to the military's occupation of Daka. "Leave nothing on the shelves, nothing in the warehouses Let nothing remain in stock!" Maduro said his seizures are the 'tip of the iceberg' and that other stores would be next if they did not comply with his orders.'"

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  1. Re:Attention Tea Party knuckleheads: by CajunArson · · Score: 0, Troll

    OH TOTALLY! When I think of the Venezuelan dictatorship, the very very first thing that springs to mind is how the tea party worships Hugo Chavez like a bunch of mindless drones!!

    Thank God-Emperor Obama that Rachel Maddow and Sean Penn have exposed those evil tea partiers and their evil affiliation with the pro-free market radical libertarian venezuelan evil dictators!

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  2. No, the plasma TVs aren't ten a penny by ciaran_o_riordan · · Score: 0, Troll

    Great journalism. Report on what one person outside the shop hopes, instead of what actually happened in the shop.

    Daka has five shops in the whole of Venezuela.

    It's very hard to know what's happening in Venezuela when you don't live there. Most of the media is owned by foreign (US) companies, so it's hard to know what sources to trust. Coverage in foreign media is often just ridiculous.

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  3. Re:LOLWUT by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    > Detroit

    And it is doing great considering how whites have abandoned it. They didn't want to pay their fair share, and the city government there is doing an amazing job of keeping things running. A Republican ruler would have cut spending and increased the rate of decline. All of the problems in that city are rooted in white people that do not want to pay their fair share.

  4. Re: Wow by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    If he was such a moron, do you think the US 1% elite would have poisoned him? Or even want to sabotage their country or political system?