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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: Steely Tom

Yes.
Doing Russian stuff no doubt.


41 posted on 03/31/2019 4:34:35 AM PDT by Leep (It's.. (W)all or nothing..!)
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To: trebb
*** The Dem Party has room for one more America hater....check it out. ***

If you think there is a whit of difference between the two parties, you need to see your Optometrist.

Sure, there is a lot of Kabuki theater that goes on for optics, but in the end, the outcome is the same.


42 posted on 03/31/2019 6:23:25 AM PDT by sockmonkey (I am an America First, not Israel First FReeper.)
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To: shalom aleichem
Like any modern nation after an EMP attack

Not hardly.

43 posted on 03/31/2019 6:25:52 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: trebb

From today’s Op Eds:

....Yet Moscow’s move is a blatant challenge to Washington. Unanswered, it will make not just President Trump but America look weak.

Trump warned midweek that “Russia has to get out” of Venezuela and that “all options” are on the table for making it happen.

National Security Adviser John Bolton followed up Friday by declaring such “provocative actions” to be “a direct threat to international peace and security in the region” and vowing “to defend and protect the interests of the United States and those of our partners in the Western Hemisphere.”

...This strengthens the case for the approach suggested by veteran diplomat Roger Noriega, namely American military support for a Venezuelan-led liberation force loyal to Interim President Juan Guaidó.

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Russia, Russia, Russia. See, if Trump doesn’t act, he’s Putin’s butt boy. If he does act, the neocons win.


44 posted on 03/31/2019 7:18:06 AM PDT by sockmonkey (I am an America First, not Israel First FReeper.)
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To: sockmonkey; SunkenCiv; All
Developments:


Putin To Trump: Mind Your Own Business On Venezuela; Russian Troops Will Stay "As Long As Needed"

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-03-30/putin-trump-mind-your-own-business-venezuela-russian-troops-will-stay-long-needed


Venezuela Military Deploys S-300 Missiles [3/25] Following Russian Troop Arrival

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-03-25/venezuela-military-deploys-s-300-missiles-following-russian-troop-arrival

45 posted on 03/31/2019 10:11:03 AM PDT by amorphous
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To: amorphous

46 posted on 03/31/2019 2:55:26 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: SunkenCiv

Thanks SC. That’s an amazing picture which foretells an ominous future for the entire region, IMHO.


47 posted on 03/31/2019 3:07:15 PM PDT by amorphous
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