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Venezuela returns to 'Middle Ages' during power outages
Yahoo News ^ | 28 March 2019 | Maria Lorente ,AFP

Posted on 03/30/2019 11:08:53 AM PDT by amorphous

Caracas (AFP) - Walking for hours, making oil lamps, bearing water. For Venezuelans today, suffering under a new nationwide blackout that has lasted days, it's like being thrown back to life centuries ago.

El Avila, a mountain that towers over Caracas, has become a place where families gather with buckets and jugs to fill up with water, wash dishes and scrub clothes. The taps in their homes are dry from lack of electricity to the city's water pumps.

"We're forced to get water from sources that obviously aren't completely hygienic. But it's enough for washing or doing the dishes," said one resident, Manuel Almeida.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Cuba; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Russia
KEYWORDS: communism; cuba; leftist; nicaragua; russia; socialism; venezuela
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It's what happens every single time societies abandon freedom and independence for government control over their lives.
1 posted on 03/30/2019 11:08:53 AM PDT by amorphous
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To: amorphous

They voted for a government that promised to take care of everything for them.


2 posted on 03/30/2019 11:12:33 AM PDT by Steely Tom ([Seth Rich] == [the Democrat's John Dean])
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To: amorphous

Does the presidential palace have electricity and clean water?


3 posted on 03/30/2019 11:16:10 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Lying Media: willing and eager allies of the hate-America left.)
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To: amorphous

AOC’s Green Utopia on display in socio-tyrannical Venezuela. Any moron who supports that Airhead should take a look at this failed lab experiment.


4 posted on 03/30/2019 11:18:21 AM PDT by tflabo (Prince of Peace, Lion of Righteousness)
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To: Steely Tom

*** They voted for a government that promised to take care of everything for them.***

I guess you think the continuing failures,fires, and explosions on their electric producing capabilities has nothing to do with US regime change.

Sorry, but economic sanctions and sabotage in order to bring
death, disease, and starvation to an innocent population is an American Value I reject.


5 posted on 03/30/2019 11:21:54 AM PDT by sockmonkey (I am an America First, not Israel First FReeper.)
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To: sockmonkey

I guess I’m supposed to take your accusations on faith.


6 posted on 03/30/2019 11:24:31 AM PDT by Steely Tom ([Seth Rich] == [the Democrat's John Dean])
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To: sockmonkey

are you saying America caused the blackouts?


7 posted on 03/30/2019 11:33:53 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: amorphous

very low carbon footprint


8 posted on 03/30/2019 11:37:44 AM PDT by Redmen4ever (u)
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To: sockmonkey
Everything okay on The International Workers Revolutionary Committee there, comrade?
9 posted on 03/30/2019 11:37:57 AM PDT by jmacusa ("The more numerous the laws the more corrupt the government''.)
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To: amorphous

Like any modern nation after an EMP attack


10 posted on 03/30/2019 11:40:47 AM PDT by shalom aleichem (Fire the rats and snakes. Shutter the press room.)
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To: jmacusa

Lots of romantic candle-lite dinners of road-killed week old armadillo.


11 posted on 03/30/2019 11:45:53 AM PDT by Beagle8U (Lil Debby Slobbercow is Michigan's NPC.)
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To: sockmonkey
Sorry, but economic sanctions and sabotage in order to bring death, disease, and starvation to an innocent population is an American Value I reject.

How, exactly did we sabotage Venezuela's hydroelectric power?

12 posted on 03/30/2019 11:46:32 AM PDT by Charles Martel (Progressives are the crab grass in the lawn of life.)
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To: Beagle8U

Ah, socialism. Muy Bien!


13 posted on 03/30/2019 11:48:13 AM PDT by jmacusa ("The more numerous the laws the more corrupt the government''.)
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To: Charles Martel; sockmonkey
How, exactly did we sabotage Venezuela's hydroelectric power?

Well, it couldn't possibly have been the fault of anyone in Venezuela, that's one thing we know.

That leaves only Donald Trump. Logic.

14 posted on 03/30/2019 11:52:25 AM PDT by Steely Tom ([Seth Rich] == [the Democrat's John Dean])
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To: Steely Tom

Could be the Russians...for real.


15 posted on 03/30/2019 11:55:09 AM PDT by Leep (It's.. (W)all or nothing..!)
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To: Beagle8U

“Lots of romantic candle-lite dinners of road-killed week old armadillo.”

Ain’t no petrol to run vehicles... did them armadillos get foot stomped to death by pedestrians?


16 posted on 03/30/2019 11:56:48 AM PDT by Clutch Martin (The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.)
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To: amorphous

So what’s the problem? According to Bernie bread lines are a good thing.


17 posted on 03/30/2019 11:58:21 AM PDT by hardspunned
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Could be the Russians...for real.

You mean the Russians ordered Trump to sabotage Venezuela's electric power system? That's dank.

18 posted on 03/30/2019 11:59:45 AM PDT by Steely Tom ([Seth Rich] == [the Democrat's John Dean])
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To: sockmonkey

“I guess you think the continuing failures,fires, and explosions on their electric producing capabilities has nothing to do with US regime change.

Sorry, but economic sanctions and sabotage in order to bring
death, disease, and starvation to an innocent population is an American Value I reject.”

Sources. Bring’em here. Societal collapse follows communism. Its a given.


19 posted on 03/30/2019 12:05:34 PM PDT by Pete from Shawnee Mission
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To: sockmonkey
I guess you think the continuing failures,fires, and explosions on their electric producing capabilities has nothing to do with US regime change.

It was decades of neglect. Not even your average Venezuelan believes that. The brain drain was massive over the past 5 years. Check out the hashtag #SinLuz on twitter. They have a meme for that tinfoil paranoia. The EMP Iguana.

Watch the explosions and fires in the US if the grid should ever go down and the utilities try to bring it back up.

Blaming the US? Where is your evidence for that besides Maduro talking points?
20 posted on 03/30/2019 12:07:22 PM PDT by PA Engineer (Liberate America from the Occupation Media.)
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