Latest state enemy for Venezuela govt an … app showing dollar-bolivar rates

Venezuela is apparently on the road to transitioning from … socialist economic disaster into a caricature of a country, as the country’s tropical overlords have declared war on an … app and Google!

With its currency (Bolivar) in a free-fall against the dollar, citizens of the “Bolivarian Republic” nevertheless had direct knowledge of the slide thanks to a (free market designed and marketed) application known as DolarToday.

Bus driver turned unionist turned Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, in fact, called the app’s very existence an “economic war” on the oil-rich country – ordering its prohibition in venceremos-plagued Venezuela.

According to Business Insider, the Venezuelan state’s attempts to block the app also downed Amazon, Snapchat, and Pinterest in the country. Venezuelans then employed other liberal western capitalist creations, such as Twitter, to pick up DolarToday’s content.

That’s when one ruling party lawmaker, Juan Carlos Alemán, suggested that the Bolivarian Revolution go after … Google and Mozilla.

“… the problem is that we rely on servers like Google and Firefox (Mozilla’s maker) that are search-engine technology that we don’t have under our national control.”

He added that staff at the relevant ministry was working on a way to use the country’s satellites “so that we can assert our independence and control this situation.”