Monday, February 25, 2008

CANTV opens campaign to have its employees call their computer mouse a ``raton''

Venezuela's state-owned telephone company is opening a campaign to have its employees call their computer mouse a ``raton'' -- Spanish for mouse -- in a bid to preserve the country's language and culture. Managers at Cia. Anonima Nacional de Telefonos de Venezuela, which was nationalized last year, decided to initiate the ``Say it in Spanish, say it with pride'' campaign because they noticed workers were using English words for industry terms that have Spanish translations, according to a statement from Venezuela's Information Ministry.

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  1. This is the same sort of narrow, parochial logic that the nationalist Parti Québecois government in Québec used to infamously engage in, to whip up people in the place of instead coming up with the socialist measures they were supposed to be implementing -- but weren't. It distracted people from the fact that the PQ was anything but what they thought they'd voted for: a government of the people, by the people, and for the people (of Québec). And we should all know how the PQ ended up: a former 'social-democrat' party turned into just another party of Big Business -- except here, the nationalist bourgeoisie of french Canada.

    What CANTV is engaged in here is neither socialism nor internationalism. It looks to me like it is time to clean house inside that organization. Democratize it and stop this chauvinist garbage.

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