Posted on 03/11/2019 8:28:17 AM PDT by detective
The horrific blackout that has engulfed all of Venezuela is not going away any time soon. Today is day four, and there will be more.
New York Times has a good reporter on the case, Anatoly Kurmanaev, and he got pretty close to the bottom of it. He writes:
I went to the heart of Venezuela's transmission system in Guarico to try to find out what's going on with the grid. Here's why partial blackouts are unfortunately likely to persist for a while. I sincerely hope I'm wrong.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Got a dictatorship in trouble? Shut off all communications to prevent any organized protests.
Ain’t socialism grand?
No, this is not planned. Inevitable, but not planned.
I would posit that they are indeed planned. It fits the pattern of a despot. Once he took control of the power and food supplies, he can manipulate the populace at will.
Anyone know if homes and apartments are still getting water through a public water system or has that failed already?
Once he took control of the power and food supplies, he can manipulate the populace at will.
Perhaps initially, but you can’t control what doesn’t exist. There is no longer any power or food.
They asked for it, and they got it.
They voted in Chavez and all his marxist promises.
The same is coming to America sooner or later. Human Nature.
There is no power because generation sites have suffered explosions. Seems coincidentally odd that this should happen across the city. Further, there is plenty of food, it simply is not being delivered into the city.
The latest estimate is for 4 million more people to flee, making that more than 30% of the population.
It's for the receiving countries to take care of these people — and way past time for all of them, the U.S. included, to take care of this problem at the root.
No. *uck that.
Here is a quotation from the mess that is posted of some poor soul in that doomed city:
“Aren’t they going to help us with water? With food?”.
That is the problem in 10 words. These people are still waiting on a kinder, gentler, more efficient socialism. Many still do not beleive that their demand for free stuff is the problem. They will die waiting on a new government to give them what they want.
There are increasing numbers of his ilk in this country and on this forum.
That's completely the wrong conclusion. If we roll out a safety net for socialists we end up with more socialists. They voted it in. They need to learn from their foolish mistake or die.
When people vote for left side of the bell curve leaders, former bus drivers and barmaids, they can expect left side of the bell curve results.
“It’s difficult to generate much sympathy for these people.
They asked for it, and they got it.
They voted in Chavez and all his marxist promises.
The same is coming to America sooner or later.”
Chavez and Maduro won fraudulent elections.
The biggest problem is the Venezuelan people who were honest, intelligent and hard working were forced to leave. The Communists took over and stole all they could. What was left they neglected and destroyed.
Similar things have happened here in the US. Look at what happened in Detroit.
The internet is also down.
Police and military activity has reportedly been increased.
Right. So there’s no power to control. Anyone capable of reestablishing it has fled.
Fruit trees still growing in their countryside? Wild berries? Will the land still grow tomatoes and potatoes?
I hope many will head for the hills and escape starvation.
“Police and military activity has reportedly been increased.”
That is always what happens in socialist and Communist countries.
That I what socialism is in real life. Threatening to kill people who are slowly dying of starvation.
North Korea is run like a tight ship. Venezuela’s leadership is herding cats. Venezuela has oil. The Norks have nukes. North Korea 1, Venezuela 0.
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