How ZTE Helps Venezuela Create China-Style Social Control
November 14th, 2018Via: Reuters:
Chinese telecoms giant ZTE is helping Venezuela build a system that monitors citizen behavior through a new identification card. The “fatherland card,” already used by the government to track voting, worries many in Venezuela and beyond.
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The card is increasingly linked by the government to subsidized food, health and other social programs most Venezuelans rely on to survive.
