Venezuela returns to 'Middle Ages' during power outages

Yahoo News ^ | 28 March 2019 | Maria Lorente ,AFP

[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.

[amorphous]

It's what happens every single time societies abandon freedom and independence for government control over their lives.

[Steely Tom]

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

[I want the USA back]

Does the presidential palace have electricity and clean water?

[tflabo]

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.

[sockmonkey]

*** 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.

[Steely Tom]

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

[Dilbert San Diego]

are you saying America caused the blackouts?

[Redmen4ever]

very low carbon footprint

[jmacusa]

Everything okay on The International Workers Revolutionary Committee there, comrade?

[shalom aleichem]

Like any modern nation after an EMP attack

[Beagle8U]

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

[Charles Martel]

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?

[jmacusa]

Ah, socialism. Muy Bien!

[Steely Tom]

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.

[Leep]

Could be the Russians...for real.

[Clutch Martin]

“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?

[hardspunned]

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

[Steely Tom]

Could be the Russians...for real.

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

[Pete from Shawnee Mission]

“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.

[PA Engineer]

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?