Venezuela's extreme leftist president Hugo Chavez recently took aim at the PlayStation and non-indigenous toys in his weekly radio-TV show,
Alo Presidente. According to the
AFP, Chavez stated, "Those games they call 'PlayStation' are poison. Some games teach you to kill." El Presidente had previously knocked Nintendo for promoting "selfishness, individualism and violence." He believes video games reinforce capitalism which, of course, is "the road to hell."
Chavez would like to see Venezuela making "educational games" instead of
Super Murder Simulator VI and "little indigenous dolls" in place of Barbie. Venezuela's (
sometimes paranoid) government
outlawed violent games
last October in an effort to curb the country's
extremely high violent crime rate.
Venezuelan president says PlayStation is 'poison,' leads children down 'road to hell' originally appeared on Joystiq on Mon, 18 Jan 2010 16:15:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
