Venezuela says it's working on a way to kill Google and Mozilla

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Venezuela to block currency information - Business Insider


Some ruling-party politicians in Venezuela will stop at nothing to hide the jaw-dropping fall of the country's currency, the bolivar, against the dollar.

The bolivar has declined 30% in the past month.

Citizens aren't supposed to know that, but they do because of because an app called DolarToday has all the information.

President Nicolas Maduro has said the app's very existence is "economic war" on the country, and it is banned in Venezuela. Back in March the government's attempt to block the app also took out websites like Amazon, Snapchat, and Pinterest.

Venezuelans have been getting around all of that, though, by using Twitter and other websites that pick up DolarToday's content.

This trend led one legistlator, Juan Carlos Alemán, to suggest that Venezula should take on Google and Mozilla, the maker of the Firefox web browser.

Alemán went on TV Monday and said "the problem is that we rely on servers like Google and Firefox that are search-engine technology that we don't have under our national control."

Alemán said that Venezuala's Ministry of Science, Technology, and Innovation was working on a way to use the country's satellites "so that we can assert our independence and control this situation."

Venezuela's inflation rate hit 69% in December, according to Bloomberg. The black-market-bolivar-to-dollar exchange rate surged from 279 bolivars to the dollar at the beginning of this month to as much as 423 bolivars to the dollar recently.

 

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and i support venezuela in that effort.

and north korea and libyan jamahirya were very comfortable internally for decades without panicking about x-to-dollar currency exchange rates... in fact, libya had the "gold dinar" currency idea which was meant to be alternative currency for exchanges between many nations in africa, asia ( including russia and china )... and in time, lead to the idea of alternative world currency.

please eat your meal to that thought.

 

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and i support venezuela in that effort.

and north korea and libyan jamahirya were very comfortable internally for decades without panicking about x-to-dollar currency exchange rates... in fact, libya had the "gold dinar" currency idea which was meant to be alternative currency for exchanges between many nations in africa, asia ( including russia and china )... and in time, lead to the idea of alternative world currency.

please eat your meal to that thought.

Venezuela regime killed it's currency and it's future. of course a failed socialist state would blame outsiders for it's faults and want to suppress the media not controlled by the state (TeleSUR) and freedom of speech

a country that squandered it's oil wealth and chance to diversify from oil as it's main export is just hilarious if you think about it

what could of been.

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