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Venezuela: Chavez administration criminalizes video games
Boing Boing — ... If I get fined for writing this (Article 13, promoting the use of violent videogames), so be it. If I go to jail because I carry rooms in my hard drive or in an R4 card for my brother, next time I return to the country, so be it. But I'd rather go to jail than betray the gamer culture, partially responsible for making me the person I am today. ...

Venezuela bans violent video games: a first-person guest essay
Boing Boing — ... If I get fined for writing this (Article 13, promoting the use of violent videogames), so be it. If I go to jail because I carry rooms in my hard drive or in an R4 card for my brother, next time I return to the country, so be it. But I'd rather go to jail than betray the gamer culture, partially responsible for making me the person I am today. ...

What It's Like To Live Where Games Are Criminalized [Venezuela]
Kotaku — ... none of that would have been possible hadn't I learned English through video games. "Now, thanks to the tiny horizons of the cast of morons who govern me, thanks to the stupidity and ham-fisted authoritarianism of the local authorities, so beloved of so many liberals, my 7 year old brother's chances to do the same could be greatly impacted." The essay in full is yours to read in the link below and it touches on more than video games. It's brave stuf: "If I get fined for writing this ( Article 13 , promoting the use of violent videogames), so be it. If I go to jail because I ...