T.V.: pledging more circus when there's less bread.
L.M.A.
The "Bread and Circus" expression comes from Latin(panem et circenses) which described the roman emperors politics of giving wheat and tickets to the roman circus games as a way of keeping the people entertained from its bad government problems. Moreover, the Maduro-Cabello duet don't give bread, but they do give digital television decoders pretending to keep the people distracted from the scarcity, inflation, insecurity, ect. This is not a new trick for the government, they already spend 500 million $ in a Chinese satellite that would have give the Venezuelans its quality of life. The government still thinks that by giving Chinese cellulars to low income families, they will forget not finding chicken, sugar, corn flour, oil, etc...
The new toy to create temporal amnesia is the digital T.V. With great fuss and with the visit of Julio DeVido, whose Argentinian criminal record overflows of corruption complains from many year ago(enough to "Google" his name to see what this character brings), Venezuela opens the era of Digital T.V. Of course, only the smeared ones who come from the chavista's technological tables of telecomunication will have access to this immediate novelty, although theres a promese that the five initial channels will be broadcasted, between them Venevision, Televen and Meridiano TV according to the flamboyant Ministry of Science and Technology and Photoshop specialist.
After confiscating the RCTV communications platform to open the road to a snake-sleeper as TVES is, this government achieved to have the mayor open telecommunications platform of the country, way more than Cisneros Venevision and any other open signal channel. But the problem is not the media, is the content of it. so much that the flamboyant Ministry of Photoshop are thinking in giving another circus but without any bread. Would, any of this, have a business contract? the first decoders will be given by our brothers from Brazil and maybe from the Argentinian of De Vido, who is used to these practices. What a big business! how much would the commission be? and how is this possible, for a government to spend a lot of money in a technology that comes from a narc, instead of helping the production of food and other urgent necessities!
Maybe the problem where the Maduro-Cabello duet lies is that the Romans made all this circus to please the heart and stuff the belly in order to ease the temper of a population. A lot, I am afraid, that in the release of these technology, with the sounds of drums and snares, the humble families received in their homes; with a new plasma-TV and its digital TV decoder, but this wasn't complete, the duet forgot the food, at least a small market of food for a month so they can enjoy the complete pack.
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