| SamuelRSmith said: Wow, Venezela is really developing recently, nuclear gnerated electricity, one million laptops for school children. If you ask me, it looks like it's a government trying to do something for its people. |
We're not developing at all, if we were developing we wouldn't be so dependable on oil exports, that's all we got, oil exports! No other industries that could mantain our country afloat. It sure gives the government a lot of money, but if the oil prices go down a lot we would be screwed.
Other thing, the one million laptops for school children is bussiness, they are buying them from Portugal! If you ask why is that a problem, then I would answer that if all the components of the laptop are made by US components (the use an OS made in Venezuela based on linux) then why don't they buy it from the US? Wouldn't it be significantly cheaper? Given that the US dollar is a waker currency and it would eliminate Portugal as an intermediary? I just smell something fishy here, my guess is that the government officials have some bussiness in Portugal and they would be benefited from this.
