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It is hard to explain the Venezuelan government and their brainwashed voters (most of them), if you look at the history of President Chavez you won’t see anything you like (that is if you like democracy), but he become President just years after a failed military coup. Still years later they voted for him and now he remains in power; that’s democracy in Latin America at its best.
I’m from a small country named Uruguay, is small, only three million people or something. And most of the people around here think good things about a gorilla that likes to beat his wife from time to time. We can spend a lot of time talking shit about President Chavez, quite a hypocrite a guy that spends thousands of dollars in the best suits and shoes and is a communist at the same time; I can only imagine then that being a communist nowadays is to go with the fashion. But you can tell the level of ignorance/desperation of the people in Latin America to follow a dictator like the god of oil he is, then you can imagine that a move to ban videogames is nothing worth a headline. Just another act against freedom and what is an act against freedom if it is for the common good?
In 2007 I wrote at radiolevelup.com that President Chavez was very angry because a videogame called Mercenaries was taking place in Venezuela. Some other member of the blog was very offended by my calling Chavez an “idiot”, I left the blog because I would not compromise my view of things just because someone else thought different.
So right now the idea of the law is to ban the sale of violent videogames. I will tell you what will happen, he is going to sign the law and then he is going to have an orgasm on his TV show explaining how evil and capitalist (and therefore if something is capitalist is evil), videogames are. If you watch his TV program you will see a lot of people wearing red that will applaud him, but that’s no surprise since they always applaud everything he says.
What a brave new world: a Dictator that has his own TV show; he bans everything that he dislikes such as violent videogames (Imperialist videogames!!), a lot of red shirted idiots applaud him... he is so charismatic when he waves the ban-hammer! Almost as charismatic as when he is verbally attacking other countries. On the other side no one dares to move because this is just another item in a long list of things you have to tolerate from a guy that is sitting over oil.
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Yet Venezuela allows Russian Bombers.
To to land at some of their key Air Strips.
*We don't like Violence... Har!har!*
Even worse than that, he'll probably talk about it for three hours while he does it. :/
I really hate that guy, he hates every single thing that cames from USA.
And that remains me something, here in Chile our goverment wants to rate the games by themselvs just in three categories:
- Child's
- Teenagers
- Adults
No middle point,that sucks. For now it's just a goverment idea, but if that happens, Latinoamerica it's gonna be soon a land of no games ._.
Danzflor: well in a manner of speaking here were I live we have no videogames industry... Some companies that do outsourcing jobs but nothing really big.
The main problem is that he price of a videogame is affected by the cost of 1 US dollar and to that price you have is affected by huge taxes.
So you have piracy and practically no legal market (that is what high taxes does).
Velt: Here the same, the games are to damn expensive to afford them, due to taxes, that sucks. Well, at least here we have Sony and Microsoft direct support (no Nintendo official distributor, meh) and we got Ace Team, the Zeno Clash Developers, but, returning to the point, if this mess keep on growning, Latinoamerica isn't going to be a good market for videogames. if that happens, we are all fucked.