{"id":1071,"date":"2010-01-21T01:08:24","date_gmt":"2010-01-21T01:08:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.paperstone.co.uk\/Wordpress\/?p=1071"},"modified":"2017-09-12T12:45:08","modified_gmt":"2017-09-12T12:45:08","slug":"hugo_chavez_playstation_games_poison_","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.paperstone.co.uk\/News\/articles\/hugo_chavez_playstation_games_poison_","title":{"rendered":"Hugo Chavez: PlayStation Games &#8216;Poison&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hugo Chavez has called video games &#8216;poison&#8217; and has said of them that they are proxies for capitalist warmongering.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Those games they call &#8216;PlayStation&#8217; are poison,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;Some games teach you to kill. They once put my face on a game, &#8216;you&#8217;ve got to find Chavez to kill him.&#8217;&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Chavez identified Western games to slick propaganda vehicles, saying their violence exists to incite violence against countries like Venezuela so that capitalist countries can &ldquo;later sell weapons&rdquo; to the country&#8217;s opponents.<\/p>\n<p>Chavez has previouly criticised Nintendo for promoting &ldquo;selfishness, individualism and violence&rdquo; in their games.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">* * *<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In other gaming news, these rather nice Space Invader tights <del>can be yours for 80 dollars<\/del>. (21\/1\/2010 &#8211; The tights have since disappeared from makers <a href=\"http:\/\/blackmilkclothing.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Black  Milk Clothing&#8217;s<\/a> website. They either sold out or were pulled for some reason.)<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" hspace=\"10\" height=\"250\" alt=\"Space Invader tights\" src=\"https:\/\/www.paperstone.co.uk\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/IMG_3886.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\n        <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hugo Chavez has called video games &#8216;poison&#8217; and has said of them that they are proxies for capitalist warmongering. &ldquo;Those games they call &#8216;PlayStation&#8217; are poison,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;Some games teach you to kill. They once put my face on a game, &#8216;you&#8217;ve got to find Chavez to kill him.&#8217;&rdquo; Chavez identified Western games to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Computer_Supplies"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Hugo Chavez: PlayStation Games &#039;Poison&#039;<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.paperstone.co.uk\/News\/articles\/hugo_chavez_playstation_games_poison_\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Hugo Chavez: PlayStation Games &#039;Poison&#039;\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Hugo Chavez has called video games &#8216;poison&#8217; and has said of them that they are proxies for capitalist warmongering. &ldquo;Those games they call &#8216;PlayStation&#8217; are poison,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;Some games teach you to kill. 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