Venezuela goes Linux?

[David Ecklein]

Item from a Venezuela news list (www.VHeadline.com):

"Chavez opens free technologies center in Merida:  President Hugo Chavez
Frias has visited Merida to open the National Center of Development and
Research in Free Technologies (Cendital). The idea behind the center is that
the government wants to boost information and communication technologies,
such as free software, promoting research and development of innovative
technological ventures that will lead towards Venezuela producing its own
technology. The development and research of free technology will center on
formal and informal education, the public sector and State institutions.
Cendital was created by decree on August 17, 2006 and published in the
Gaceta Oficial No. 38, 502. The National Executive, via the Science &
Technology Ministry, has spent more than several billion bolivares on the
project over a 3- year period and the HQ will be in Merida's Los Hechizos
sector."

...doesn't specifically say "Linux", but I am sure it is part, if not core,
of the mix here.