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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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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.

But it is an Venezuelan value you accept?

Venezuela, Cuba, Russia, and China did far more to destroy the Venezuelan economy and infrastructure than any U.S. sanctions.

The Venezuela policies of getting rid of all skilled workers, and nationalizing the productive assets, did the sabotage to Venezuela's economy.

What we see in Venezuela is not murder. It is suicide, more properly, assisted suicide, with the Chavista's assisting everyone else!

21 posted on 03/30/2019 12:07:26 PM PDT by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
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To: Steely Tom

No.
But who is in Venezuela right now?


22 posted on 03/30/2019 12:13:18 PM PDT by Leep (It's.. (W)all or nothing..!)
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To: sockmonkey

So you are blaming President Trump for Venezuela’s collapse? How illogical. The corrupt Chavez/Maduro Leftists have been in charge for a decade, long before President Trump took office.


23 posted on 03/30/2019 12:16:06 PM PDT by txrefugee
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To: I want the USA back

+1

The lights, water, central air, hd satellite tv, high speed internet, and cafeteria are never shut down for President Maduro, his wife, girlfriend, drug dealer, bodyguards, pharmacist, maids and massage therapists. The government’s got to keep running for the citizens of Venezuela.


24 posted on 03/30/2019 12:22:04 PM PDT by CaliforniaCraftBeer
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To: sockmonkey

What sabotage would that be, oh aptly named one?


25 posted on 03/30/2019 12:23:29 PM PDT by sparklite2 (Don't mind me. I'm just a contrarian.)
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To: Steely Tom

But you don’t understand. There’s nothing wrong with the government they voted for. It’s just that the person in charge of it made a few mistakes. All they need is a new leader and socialism will work. /s/


26 posted on 03/30/2019 1:16:11 PM PDT by redfreedom
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To: amorphous

Venezuela goes carbon neutral!! Shouldn’t we be celebrating their courage for protecting the climate?


27 posted on 03/30/2019 1:16:28 PM PDT by eyeamok
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To: sockmonkey

“Maria Gabriela Chavez, 35, the late president’s second-oldest daughter, holds assets in American and Andorran banks totaling almost $4.2billion, Diario las Americas reports.”
“ Alejandro Andrade, who served as Venezuela’s treasury minister from 2007 to 2010 and was reportedly a close associate of Chavez, was discovered to have $11.2billion in his name sitting in HSBC accounts in Switzerland, according to documents leaked by whistleblower Hervé Falciani.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3192933/Hugo-Chavez-s-ambassador-daughter-Venezuela-s-richest-woman-according-new-report.html
Buy a lot of generators with that sort of graft and I’m sure that’s just scratching the surface. Maduro has his own stash, I’m sure.


28 posted on 03/30/2019 1:33:36 PM PDT by outofsalt (If history teaches us anything, it's that history rarely teaches us anything.)
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To: amorphous

Wouldn’t that be the “dark ages”?


29 posted on 03/30/2019 1:40:42 PM PDT by Grimmy (equivocation is but the first step along the road to capitulation)
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To: Leep
But who is in Venezuela right now?

Russia, Russia, Russia?


30 posted on 03/30/2019 1:44:56 PM PDT by Steely Tom ([Seth Rich] == [the Democrat's John Dean])
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To: outofsalt
Maduro has his own stash, I’m sure.

Unlike Hillary and Bill who left office broke. </s>

31 posted on 03/30/2019 1:49:12 PM PDT by itsahoot (Welcome to the New USA where Islam is a religion of peace and Christianity is a mental disorder.)
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To: sockmonkey

What I read is that the reason for the blackouts is that all of the experienced power company operators have fled the country. So no, I don’t think it has anything to do with US policy.


32 posted on 03/30/2019 2:30:43 PM PDT by Brilliant
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To: itsahoot

If we just listen to Beto and take money out of politics it will be paradise on earth.


33 posted on 03/30/2019 2:42:47 PM PDT by outofsalt (If history teaches us anything, it's that history rarely teaches us anything.)
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To: amorphous

Atlas shrugged


34 posted on 03/30/2019 4:09:46 PM PDT by DocRock (And now is the time to fight! Peter Muhlenberg)
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To: txrefugee

*** So you are blaming President Trump for Venezuela’s collapse? ***

Did I say that? Venezuela has experienced sanctions by the US gov’t since 2011. They have increased incrementally.

CANVAS, an NGO, (Centre for Applied Nonviolent Action and Strategies) has been exposed as allying itself with Stratfor in regards to regime change in Venezuela. This was exposed by WikiLeaks in 2014. Venezuela’s electric grid is cited as a soft spot back in 2010, four years prior to WikiLeaks publishing the leaks.

Remember 2013 not a neocon Donald Trump? Or Candidate Trump? The one who said no more Regime Change Wars? Out of Syria, and Afghanistan? The one I couldn’t imagine deciding a nuclear KSA is a good thing, and then sell them the needed technology to bring it to fruition?


35 posted on 03/30/2019 8:07:22 PM PDT by sockmonkey (I am an America First, not Israel First FReeper.)
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To: amorphous

Q: What did the socialists have before water gathered from the stream?

A: Plumbing!


36 posted on 03/30/2019 8:08:55 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Modern feminism: ALL MEN BAD!!!)
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To: sockmonkey

Our refusal to buy their oil makes little difference to them. As far as I know, they simply cannot get most of it out of the ground, so it does not really matter to whom they sell the remnant that they can extract.

As for the power plants blowing up, what proof do you have that we’re causing that?


37 posted on 03/30/2019 8:11:45 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Modern feminism: ALL MEN BAD!!!)
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To: sockmonkey

So socialism works, they just can’t protect their people from evil capitalists. OK


38 posted on 03/30/2019 8:20:47 PM PDT by shoff (Vote Democrat it beats thinking!)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
Thanks amorphous.

39 posted on 03/31/2019 12:19:06 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: sockmonkey

The Dem Party has room for one more America hater....check it out.


40 posted on 03/31/2019 3:27:08 AM PDT by trebb (Don't howl about illegal leeches while not donating to FR - it's hypocritical.)
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