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posted by Fnord666 on Tuesday July 23 2019, @11:11AM   Printer-friendly
from the keeping-the-lights-on dept.

Venezuela Suffers Nationwide Blackout in Latest Power Outage:

Venezuela has suffered a nationwide power cut, including the capital, Caracas, which the country's Information Minister Jorge Rodriguez said was caused by an "electromagnetic attack".

[...] The lights went out in most of Caracas at 4:41pm (20:41 GMT) while people in other parts of the country took to social media to report the power had gone out there too in the first major blackout since March.

"These blackouts are catastrophic," said 51-year-old janitor Bernardina Guerra, who lives in Caracas. "I live in the eastern part of the city and there the lights go out every day. Each day things are worse."

At least 14 Venezuelan states lost power on Monday, according to Reuters witnesses and reports on social media.

The state-owned power company Corpolec only reported a breakdown affecting sectors of the capital, Caracas.

[...] Blackouts are a common occurrence in Venezuela, especially in remote western regions.

The government usually blames them on sabotage but experts say that a lack of investment, poor management and corruption are the more likely culprits.

The oil-rich country's hyperinflationary economic crisis has led to widespread shortages in food and medicine, prompting more than four million Venezuelans to leave the country.


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  • (Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 23 2019, @07:58PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 23 2019, @07:58PM (#870445)

    Such a perfect post for you khallow, but I wonder if you have any idea why I would say that.

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  • (Score: 1) by khallow on Wednesday July 24 2019, @03:54AM

    by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday July 24 2019, @03:54AM (#870586) Journal
    I imagine because you're an idiot? I doubt you wonder about much of anything, for starters.

    I've had SN posters (most particularly, the OriginalOwner dude, long may his craziness be missed) wax poetic about Venezuela's Bolivarian revolution miracle and how much US capitalists and counter-revolutionaries are holding it back. Plenty of other countries don't have that problem, but that never got through OO's reality deflector shields.