Chavez on “Capitalist” toys
Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez, criticized the PlayStation game console because he believes it is a product of capitalism. The same fate befell the blonde Barbie doll. He demanded that children play with the traditional yo-yo.
Chavez commented during his weekly radio-TV show “Alo Presidente,” appealing to Venezuelan manufacturers to make “educational” toys and dolls with indigenous peoples’ features to replace capitalistic counterparts like the Barbie doll that “have nothing to do with our culture”
After dissing Nintendo for promoting “selfishness, individualism and violence,” Chavez took aim at the PS line.
According to the Venezuelan leader, the Sony PlayStation line of consoles is “poison” and is leading children down the “capitalist road to hell.”
“Those games they call ‘PlayStation’ are poison. Some games teach you to kill. They once put my face on a game, you’ve got to find Chavez to kill him,” he said.
In October, the country introduced a law that made the selling of violent videogames punishable with up to five years in prison.
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