Twitter may be U.S.-based company, and Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez may, to put it mildly, dislike the United States, but that doesn’t mean he  is shunning social media. We mentioned in an earlier post that Chavez was going to join the social media world, and he has proven a prolific tweeter since joining the microblogging service last month.

According to the BBC, his first tweet translated to: “Hey how’s it going? I appeared like I said I would: at midnight. I’m off to Brazil. And very happy to work for Venezuela. We will be victorious!!”
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Hugo Chavez is ripe for caricature in the U.S. and he just got the snarky Gawker treatment for his latest announcement that he’s going to start blogging:

The prickly President of Venezuela has just about had it with the backstabby world of online political dissidence, and has vowed to fight back with a blog of his own. Generation Overshare, please welcome your soon-to-be newest comrade.
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