Tag: HUGO CHAVEZ

In Hugo Chavez's mind, everyone wants to kill him -- even, apparently, on Twitter. According to the AP, police in Venezuela have arrested a man on charges that he used the microblogging site to incite an assassination attempt on President Chavez. Federal Police Chief Wilmer Flores Trossel says that the 27-year-old suspect is an engineer at Venezuela's state-run power company, National Electrical ...

After finally taking the plunge and joining Twitter, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has wasted no time in using the micro-blogging service to blame others for his country's economic woes. During his weekly radio and television address this weekend, Chavez urged his followers to use Twitter to alert government authorities if they run into any currency speculators, whom Chavez blames for ...

A few months ago, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez went on a media shut-down rampage, closing opposition TV stations, retaliating against student protests, and, most notably, taking aim at Facebook and Twitter, a hotbed of anti-Chavez sentiment. Recently, however, Chavez decided to slap on some flip-flops, and take a major plunge into the social media pool. Posting under the 'chavezcandanga' ...

Highlights from this morning's other big tech headlines.... 25 years ago today, the very first ".com" domain was registered (famously by Symbolics), and that solitary number has since increased exponentially to reach a total of approximately 85 million sites. D.C. is hosting a commemoration celebration tomorrow, and the keynote speaker is expected to be Bill Clinton. Wait, what? (Insert ...

Highlights from this morning's other big tech headlines.... Under leader Hugo Chavez, Venezuela hasn't exactly developed a stellar reputation for promoting and protecting human rights. Despite that lack of concern for Venezuelans' civil liberties, Chavez is seeking to protect his nation's children from an apparent capitalist tool of the devil: the video game. Chavez (who has banned the sale ...