[catnipman]

If the Guri generators were damaged, they'll never get the power back on, at least as long as Maduro is in charge ...

This looks for all the world like the end game in "Atlas Shrugged"

[Fungi]

HaHaHa, socialists never learn.

[fwdude]

Sounds kind of like Detroit, only larger.

[BusterDog]

I would not be surprised if we turned the lights off. We wanted a coup, this will get one.

[lurk]

No refrigeration or communication. Stone age life in a modern country. And still Maduro is king.

[Opinionated Blowhard]

dampening hopes of imminent resolution to a devastating blackout that has brought the country to the verge of social implosion.

Funny, other countries experience blackouts from time to time and they aren't brought to "the verge of social implosion." I wonder why Venezuela is different. / sarc

Leave it to the NYT to write an entire article examining all the issues related to the blackout and not identify the prime cause: Socialism.

[Delta 21]

One powerplant for 75% of the country. What could go wrong?

[Ciaphas Cain]

BROTHER, YOU ASKED FOR IT!

Francisco Domingo Carlos Andres Sebastian d'Anconia

[M Kehoe]

Hi.

I have a solution to Venezuela’s problems.

Get Bernie, Occasional-Cortex, Glover, Sean Penn and others to go and relieve Maduro from power.

Then that cabal, in conjunction with Michael Moore, Soros and others, can make Venezuela great again. MVGA!

5.56mm

[Gideon7]

What caused the Guri failure? Corpoelec union leader Ali Briceño said it was brush fire under the 765 KV trunkline which caused a surge in the system and caused Guri to shut down. There are no skilled operators left there to restart it.

Most people I talked to say the problem had to occur inside Guri’s turbines themselves. And that’s a scary thought. If they are damaged, they will be very hard to replace or repair. No money or skilled people.

https://twitter.com/AKurmanaev/status/1104961536253145088

[Leep]

When do they start eating each other?

[FreedomPoster]

[eyeamok]

Venezuela’s Green New Deal isn’t working out so well...or is it?

[Kozak]

Socialist Daylight Savings Time.

” Set your clocks back a Century”.....

[FreedomPoster]

[PGR88]

Is it me, or does Latino culture seem to love collectivism, socialism, envy and Caudillo culture?

In that case, there’s no fixing Venezuela.

[Vendome]

Stuxnet

GTFO Maduro...

[A Navy Vet]

Paging Sean Penn, Danny Glover, Obambi, and all the others who shook hands with and supported Hugo's socialist paradise on Earth. Where oh where can they be? Sucking up to Maduro behind closed doors?

Best guess, they've climbed back under their rocks. I'd give odds 10 to 1, we will never hear from them again. Anyone notice that Bernie, AOC, Harris and others have NOTHING to say about the socialist failure of a rich country?

As stated before, Trump needs to bring the argument between free enterprise and socialism to the forefront. It's long past time us financial conservatives promote the failures of socialism. According to some on CNN and MSNBC, they think the word socialism is a new catch-word for conservatives. They need a lesson in ideology. Or maybe, just pick up a f*cking dictionary.

[jdege]

If a turbine breaks, trying to start it again without fixing or replacing it isn’t likely to make things better...

[certrtwngnut]

“This looks for all the world like the end game in Atlas Shrugged”.
A lot of what is going on today looks like it comes from “Atlas Shrugged”.

[Telepathic Intruder]

A "blackout" is what you call normal illumination in a socialist country.