Venezuela seeks to root out English
President Hugo Chavez's government is taking its battle against U.S. "imperialism" into Venezuelans' vocabulary, urging state phone company workers to eschew English-language business and tech terms that have crept into the local vernacular.
Good idea, best to keep to your original language, Spa... - wait a minute, Spanish is the language of "imperialist" Spain, you know, that country that sailed to Venezuela many years ago, took over the country - what was it called then? - and gave the people a new language. If you're going to be consistent you better root out Spanish, too.
Better go back to the language of the Carib, Arawak, and the Chibcha.
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