Venezuela is Behind the Times

Following in the footsteps of long time friend Fidel Castro, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has decided to put his own country behind the times. The only difference is that Venezuela will literally be half-an-hour behind what they’ve been accustomed too, while Cuba remains 50 years behind technology.

Chavez ordered that at midnight, September 24, 2007, the people of Venezuela turn their clock hands one half hour back, but when explaining the bizarre time change on his weekly television show, along with his brother (minister of education), mistakenly told them to add one half hour, subsequently sending the people of Venezuela into a time-lapsed frenzy.

Millions of Venezuelans panicked when their TV Guides featured show times with question marks. “American Idol – Monday at…?” Oh wait, American Idol isn’t scene in Venezuela, it’s too evil – just like Americans.

At least Chavez had the right intentions when he made the decision to mind-fuck the country. Apparently, the reason for the odd new demand is so that the children of Venezuela wont have to wake-up prior to dawn for school. Chavez, like Trick, “loves the kids.”

Señor Chavez, why not make school start and end an hour later? Why ruin the lives of single, childless people that just figured out how to use their government issued rebel watches with the anti-American ‘seconds-hand’ detector? Why add to the headache of air travel?

I’m sure that to the Castro brothers, surviving members of Che Guevara’s family and the ghost of Karl Marx, this half-hour time change makes perfect sense and could only be executed by a brilliant leader like Chavez. But to the rest of the world’s population, with the exception of Nepal - which is 15 minutes ahead of India - and the handful of other odd countries that don’t follow GMT, this is just another absurd move by a dictator.

Cheers,
Victor