Authors:
Luis Alberto López Rafaschieri and José Alberto López Rafaschieri
www.morochos.net
Devil:
The Venezuelan president says he was once at a summit of Heads of State, and Fidel Castro passed him a note telling him, "Chavez, I feel like I’m not the only devil at these meetings." So who knows, maybe the inspiration came from there.
According to the dictionary of the Spanish Royal Academy, the word Candanga is a Latin American name with three meanings: the first is the Devil, the second is annoying, and the third is mess.
Thus, in any of the cases, what Chavez express with his Twitter ID -@chavezcandanga- is something negative. If we translate his username, he well could be called @chavezdevil, @chavezannoying, or @chavezmess, and it would be almost the same.
Capitalism:
However, besides the name, the Chavez's Twitter account leads us to other considerations:
Twitter is a private company that represents capitalism, operated and managed by US citizens, and located in the country that Latin American Communists hate more than anything on the Earth. Ergo, an anti-capitalist who has an account on Twitter symbolizes a contradiction. Chavez should use socialist Internet services, with servers located in Cuba, for example, if that exists.
But even the most intransigent enemies of the free market cannot resist the progress created by the private sector in capitalism, and ironically, by making tweets, Chavez attracts thousands of socialist followers, expanding in this way the company's customer base, and thereby contributing to the rise of capitalism.
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