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    Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez governs homeland using Twitter

    The country's leader is using social networking to make decisions while out of the country

    While your most important use of Twitter today might be telling all your dedicated followers what you had for lunch, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez rules a country using the social network. During his extended stay in Cuba — as he undergoes treatment for an unspecified cancer diagnosis — Chavez has been making use of Twitter to approve government programs and even cheer on the country's soccer team as it competed in the Copa America tournament.

    Chavez has been in Cuba since June 20, when he underwent surgery to remove a tumor. He, along with the rest of the Venezuelan government, has remained mum on where or how serious the cancer was. Chavez has remained in Cuba to complete a series of chemotherapy treatments. While there, thePresident's official Twitter account has been alive with communications to his cabinet and decisions on issues like a $51 million waste collection project.

    The 56-year-old leader took office in 1999 and is approaching the end of his third term as President. The Venezuelan constitution states that he can be reelected an unlimited number of times, and Chavez has already indicated his desire to remain in power. Utilizing Twitter to gain support and remain in the public eye might be a move pioneered by candidates here in the United States, but Chavez' 1.8 million followers make it clear that the formula works in any language.

    [via The Next Web]

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    25 comments

    • Independence76  •  10 mths ago
      A twit using twitter?
    • Püpy Buhtt  •  10 mths ago
      Chavez is a dictatorial twat. May he and Raulito et al rot in the same cesspool. 'Nuff said.
    • Barry  •  10 mths ago
      the number of americans going over seas for medical help is rising every day due to the outragous cost here..
    • Barry  •  10 mths ago
      Your in our prayers hugo..glad to see your doing well.. loved when you called pos bush a demon you sure had that right...
    • KP California  •  10 mths ago
      Good for Boehner!!! If November's election was also for his reelection, he would have been voted out along with all his cronies that were booted out. Learn your Obama. You are arrogant and it is your choice now not to listen to what the people want and how we want our government to run. Not the way you want to run it on your own. Obama takes his leads from Podesta and Soros and all his socialist czars. He can not lead on his own. Soros should be thrown out of this country and citizenship revoked. Then he can take the whole White House administration with them to another country. The nice thing about this country is our legal immigranst that left their socialist countries or dictatorship countries to come here for a better life with freedom. They will not let this country go socialist.
    • moriel73  •  10 mths ago
      @chavezcandanga What Goes Around Comes Around!
    • Hangman  •  10 mths ago
      so......what we're REALLY saying is that the twit folks are aiding/abetting (that's like accomplices before /during/after the 'facts') in his crusade AGAINST the US and his dictatorship over the peoples of that country????? and they will continue to do this(because they are PROFITING for it) into the probably future....wonder how many people have had/will have to suffer to make it worth their while?
    • R Raj eL  •  10 mths ago
      ahhh, yes...hark and herald another day on our fair Gaia! twait-tweet-twiyt-twoht-twoot...
    • Paul  •  10 mths ago
      Chevez got billions from china and is paying back with a little oil per month,wake up america,sell the grouns oil and pay nat debt and replenish the borowed money for the future retires
    • Mark H  •  10 mths ago
      Stunning that he would use use technology from the devils.
    • ConcernedCitizen  •  10 mths ago
      As usual, Yahoo! pushes the superficial while the reality is sinister. Chavez changed the Venezuelan Constitution to allow him to be reelected an unlimited number of times. He has consolidated power into himself to become a dictator like Castro. Corruption runs rampant in Venezuela and he has taken control over the oil industry.
    • Fuzzy Dunlop  •  10 mths ago
      It's a Frankenstein experiment, they combining Chavez and Castro into one evil dictator. It's not cancer, it's just evil
    • dude with opinions  •  10 mths ago
      Says a lot about a country when the leader goes to another country to have surgery and treatment. What the hospitals in your country not good enough, or is he scared when he was under the doc would kill him?
    • James D.B  •  10 mths ago
      Somebody must be pressing the keys for the little fat boy. His fingers are too big.
    • Joe Schmoe  •  10 mths ago
      running the gov't? Whatever
    • Luis  •  10 mths ago
      Venezuelan should just be honest and bring Castro to Venezuela and govern it, then govern Cuba from Venezuela via twitter
    • noone  •  10 mths ago
      Maybe he's twitterpated!!
    • Fred Flintstone  •  10 mths ago
      He is a twit!
    • Fred Flintstone  •  10 mths ago
      He is a twit
    • Fred Flintstone  •  10 mths ago
      Somebody needs to send this bastarg to his maker and free the country

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