Addressing supporters in southwestern Caracas, Guaido - the leader of the opposition-run congress who invoked the constitution to assume an interim presidency in January - said Maduro's government "has no way to solve the electricity crisis that they themselves created."...
"We're all upset that we've got no power, no phone service, no water and they want to block us," said Rossmary Nascimiento, 45, a nutritionist at the Caracas rally. "I want a normal country."
At a competing march organized by the Socialist Party to protest what it calls U.S. imperialism, Maduro blamed the outages on "electromagnetic and cyber attacks directed from abroad by the empire." "The right wing, together with the empire, has stabbed the electricity system, and we are trying to cure it soon," he said....
March 10, 2019
"'All of Venezuela, to Caracas!' Guaido yelled while standing atop a bridge.... 'The days ahead will be difficult, thanks to the regime.'"
From "Venezuela's Guaido calls for massive protest as blackout drags on" (Reuters).
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Sounds like the Democrats. Just making shit up to try and control the country or a city's public schools.
Vote for Bernie! If you like your electricity out, he will keep it out. Save the Planet.
The leftist should be excited. Venezuela has embraced the Green New Deal. Look how much carbon pollution they are saving.
And just think of all the carbon that will be sequestered with the mass graves Socialist create.
Maduro should learn from the Democrats and blame Russia.
All these people marching around everywhere every which way. The new hit political metric!
Well...to be quite honest I'd rather be home with the wife and kids.
Pretty soon they'll be doing as well as North Korea.
He used a lot of words when he could have just said "wreckers."
Bernie Sanders Utopia
Managing a country is not so different from caring for someone who becomes handicapped. Nations do not see or hear, so they are at the mercy of their owners or care providers who must preserve the dignity and special character that the country exemplifies.
Another similarity with the LeCroix CEO, Caporella...
Maduro blamed the outages on "electromagnetic and cyber attacks directed from abroad by the empire." "The right wing, together with the empire, has stabbed the electricity system, and we are trying to cure it soon," he said....
Meanwhile...
Caporella also claimed "professional liars" were using social media to attack the brand's integrity. First "professional liars." Then "injustice."
Venezuela was one of the richest countries in the world. Lots of oil, natural resources. It was also very popular with the left, starting a decade or so ago. Hollywood, most of the Democrat party, pointed to Venezuela as the future. Policies that included free education, free, or almost free gas, low rent-keeping the capitalists down and rising up the people!!.
I just can't understand what happened. Perhaps some democrats would care to explain? It is certainly a mystery, and it must be DJT fault, or Ivankas fault.
The exact same policies that AOC, Bernie, and the current Dem house want for the USA.
Its strange that no one on the left mentions Venezuela anymore. But yeah, let's vote for the left, cuz this time, this fucking time, it will work.
"The right wing, together with the empire, has stabbed the electricity system, and we are trying to cure it soon," he said....
That's Green New Deal level science. Is AOC helping Maduro?
What did socialists use before candles?
Electricity
John Henry
Is AOC helping Maduro?
Yes she is. Believe it or not, she's a supporter of his.
I am sure Bono is on his way down right now to hook up the engines on his private jet to a generator.
Yes, think of the CO2 savings!
The Green Leap Forward could solve our obesity problem. Starvation will do that for you.
As for Venezuka, they’re proving the joke true: “What did socialsts use for lighting before candels? Electricity.
"I want a normal country."
You chose a different path 20 years ago. It was more important to you to punish those you hated than to accept that improvement cannot be made equal. You got exactly what you wanted: now many of the rich have just as little as you. Inequality has been solved, congratulations.
Bernie Sanders could head down and power a boiler to two with just hot air.
I wish the US were half as powerful as the tin pot dictators around the world claim it to be.
Maduro should learn from the Democrats and blame Russia.
He did learn from the Dems, he blames Trump.
"Maduro says Guaido is a puppet of Washington and dismisses his claim to the presidency as an effort by the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump to control Venezuela's oil wealth."
Bravo, John Henry.
now many of the rich have just as little as you. Inequality has been solved, congratulations.
A lot of the rich and middle class are in Miami. The people who voted in Chavez are now struck with their decision.
Democrats might take note.
Maduro has indeed internalized the talking points of every western leftist/LLR.
I'm just happy to see a country implementing the Green New Deal to show us how wonderful it will be if enacted here.
Venezuela was "socialist" before Chavez and Maduro.
The oil boom of the 1970s turned it into a state-directed economy before Chavez got his hands on it. The only reason Chavez got in was because the previous governing system lost "the mandate of heaven" due to the long run of low oil prices, the same thing afflicting Venezuela under Maduro. The Chavezian argument was a difference in emphasis more than a difference in kind, a more extreme expression of the same foolishness.
The exiles in Miami, many of them, were the corporatist beneficiaries of the previous era of petroleum subsidized socialism. They were not quite as idiotic or uncivilized as the present regime, but they were actively involved in putting their country on this degenerate path.
How did that greasy sumbitch find out about our nation-specific EMP technology?
I'm just happy to see a country implementing the Green New Deal to show us how wonderful it will be if enacted here.
That's isn't how it would go here. Here, it would go swimmingly.
Why?
Because our socialist are smarter, well educated, and very, very well intentioned.
I just peeved that Maduro didn't capitalize empire.
It's the Empire, you mustachioed Commie butt-bitch. Didn't you see Star Wars, Episode 4? 5? 6? 1? 2? 3? 7? 8? 3.5?
"I want a normal country."
Sorry, you picked socialism. Abnormal is what happens when you "rewrite the social contract."
"Inequality has been solved."
Actually, no: new inequality crops up, unexpectedly--with the Chavez family amassing billions.
Who is richer, the Castro family or the Chavez family? Lifestyles of the Rich and Communist.
I agree that Venezuelans have made their bed, voluntarily. If you say it's up to them to fix it, only the neocons disagree.
However, It's the Cubans keeping Maduro in power, not Venezuelans. I'm not advocating any course of action, just saying it's complicated. More reason to stay out of it, I guess.
"petoleo es el excremento del diablo"
Juan Pablo Perez Alfonso
Petroleum is the devil's shit
Juanpa was the Venezuelan oil minister wh "created" OPEC in 1960.
Since he really just copied from the Texas Railroad Commission regs on the Texas oil industry, "created" might not be the right word.
He felt that the easy Petroleum money wrecked any economic incentive to build a real economy. Hence the quote.
John Henry
The path to degeneracy was set at that time that the state became the sole or principal source of economic rewards. The national economy became dominated by the flow of money from the state-owned oil industry, and so the state acquired an ultimate power that overrode everything. In some ways it achieved through natural economics what Castro did through his military dictatorship.
The Chavez-ian innovation was not really an innovation in the general South American sense, that of including the military in the governing interest group, it was really a reversion. Previously the Venezuelan military was relatively unpolitical (having quit politics after 1958). The combination of economic and military control is now their immediate problem.
I once watched a documentary on the “disappeared” in Argentina, they interviewed family members. You know who they were primarily? Cuban communists. Whodaguessedit? And this was a sympathetic documentary to them, with lots of sympathy slathered on. I came out of it with probably exactly the opposite opinion of the one they tried to create in me. It had to be done, sadly.
No lights. No refrigeration. No smart phone . No internet. No fuel. No street lights. No traffic lights. No newspapers. No ATM for cash. No credit card scanners.
No radio or tv to find out what is happening.
Twilight Zone.
Actually, no: new inequality crops up, unexpectedly--with the Chavez family amassing billions.
Left wingers support getting rich through government (Bernie Sanders, Harry Reid, the Clintons, Obama) though so that inequality doesn't count.
As the InstaPundit writes, “Under capitalism, the rich become powerful. Under socialism, the powerful become rich and everyone else becomes poor.”
That isn’t a bug of socialism. It’s a feature, which explains why academics and other layabouts advocate socialism. They thing they’ll be the ones running things and choosing who gets shot.
Is Guaido a CIA asset, as was rumored from the start?
Was the burning of aid trucks from Columbia a CIA false flag to garner public support for war?
Sure looks that way.
So shipping 120 tons of food to Cuba, yes Venezuela Is run lock stock and barrel by the dgi as Nicaragua was in the 80s
I wonder if there are any tube based ham radios still available that could by run on a generator with no integrated circuits.
If this happens to the US, we are all going to be looking to rhhardin. One EMP and that’s us.
Probably not:
https://babalublog.com/2019/03/10/cuban-independent-journalist-identifies-high-ranking-castro-military-officials-working-in-venezuela/#respond
A diversion, but on the subject of socialism, -
"49th Parallel", 1941, starring Leslie Howard, Laurence Olivier, etc. A remarkably creative, but low-key war movie, about escaped German U-Boat sailors trying to cross Canada to the then-neutral US. Among other things they run into a community of religious-communist German Hutterites on the great plains.
Its on Youtube.
Actually she's completely correct about "Moderates". Tinkering around the edges will NOT change things for the better. Just not in the way she thinks.
Browndog said...
Is Guaido a CIA asset, as was rumored from the start?
Was the burning of aid trucks from Columbia a CIA false flag to garner public support for war?
Sure looks that way."
it does if you are a Communist or a moron. In reality where most of us live, it's the Venezuelan regime who ordered the destruction of the aid trucks.
it does if you are a Communist or a moron. In reality where most of us live, it's the Venezuelan regime who ordered the destruction of the aid trucks.
Why is it that most people that are quick to call others a moron, are, in fact, a moron?
The reality is, "U.S. backed resistance" set the trucks on fire.
That is a fact.
Maduro blamed the outages on "electromagnetic and cyber attacks directed from abroad by the empire." "The right wing, together with the empire, has stabbed the electricity system, and we are trying to cure it soon," he said....
Since they really don't understand how electricity is created and how to maintain the infrastructure necessary to provide it I suspect that they honestly believe that the reason they are suffering outages is because the Evil Empire has attacked with magic electromagnetic attacks. They truly believe that the only reason things are not running smoothly is because of nefarious interference from the Wreckers and Hoarders.
This is what happens when you are ruled by the ignorant and inexperienced. You cannot reason with this level of ignorance.
It takes a lot of effort and capital to keep things like internet and power systems operating. The Venezuelan government has been skimping on these items for 2 decades, and it shows up in events like this, and we aren't even discussing the decline in their oil business which is caused by the exact same myopic management.
Browndog said...
it does if you are a Communist or a moron. In reality where most of us live, it's the Venezuelan regime who ordered the destruction of the aid trucks.
Why is it that most people that are quick to call others a moron, are, in fact, a moron?
The reality is, "U.S. backed resistance" set the trucks on fire.
That is a fact."
The only fact is that Venezuela regime thugs set the aid trucks on fire. As for my comment on morons, only two sorts of people are all in for Socialism; morons and those with larceny in their hearts. So which are you? A grifter or a moron?
The only fact is that Venezuela regime thugs set the aid trucks on fire. As for my comment on morons, only two sorts of people are all in for Socialism; morons and those with larceny in their hearts. So which are you? A grifter or a moron?
I'm neither, asshole.
I'm done here. Enjoy your embarrassment in the coming days.
The consistent thread through South American government is that no matter the forms they do not perform. Yet Chile is looking ok and Brazil has swept itself clean for now. Columbia seems better. I do respect how Honduras dealt with their own Chavez’s much to Hillary’s anger, and Europe too.
buwaya
Venezuela was "socialist" before Chavez and Maduro.
Pretty much so. After all, the main income producer is government-owned. More than one person with extensive knowledge of Venezuela has stated that a "right-winger" in Venezuela would be considered a left-winger in Venezuela.Juan Guaidó, President of the National Assembly and Interim President according to many, has been called "right-wing." Yet Guaidó was one of the founders of the Voluntad Popular party. Voluntad Popular is a full member of the Socialist International.
The petrostate that was and the petrostate that is helps explain the continuities between the time before Chávez was elected and after he was elected. As this was written in 2003, things have changed.
Aunty Trump
I once watched a documentary on the “disappeared” in Argentina, they interviewed family members. You know who they were primarily? Cuban communists. Whodaguessedit? And this was a sympathetic documentary to them, with lots of sympathy slathered on. I came out of it with probably exactly the opposite opinion of the one they tried to create in me. It had to be done, sadly.
V.S. Naipaul wrote four article on Argentina for the New York Review of Books over a 20 year span. They are well worth the read. Hi first article on Argentina, The Corpse at the Iron Gate, was published in 1972.This was written four years before the military deposed Isabel Perón and intensified the Dirty War. When Naipaul wrote the article in 1972 the Dirty War- and guerrilla action in Argentina- was just simmering . By 1976 the Dirty War, when Isabel Perón was deposed, the Dirty War was in full boil.
These lawyers had been represented to me as a group working for “civil rights.” They were young, stylishly dressed, and they were meeting that morning to draft a petition against torture. The top-floor flat was scruffy and bare; visitors were scrutinized through the peep-hole; everybody whispered; and there was a lot of cigarette smoke. Intrigue, danger. But one of the lawyers was diverted by my invitation to lunch, and at lunch—he was a hearty and expensive eater—he made it clear that the torture they were protesting against wasn’t to be confused with the torture in Perón’s time.
He said: “When justice is the justice of the people men sometimes commit excesses. But in the final analysis the important thing is that justice should be done in the name of the people.” ……
“There are no internal enemies,” the trade union leader said, with a smile. But at the same time he thought that torture would continue in Argentina. “A world without torture is an ideal world.” And there was torture and torture. “Depende de quién sea torturado. It depends on who is tortured. An evildoer, that’s all right. But a man who’s trying to save the country—that’s something else.
The leftists that Naipaul interviewed had a very plastic attitude towards torture: Depende de quién sea torturado.(It depends on who is being tortured.) According to those two leftists Naipaul interviewed, torture was good if our guys do it, bad if the police do it against us. Which doesn’t sound very different from the military gorilas’ (yes, gorillas) point of view. Sounds to me as if a lot of the guerrillas and guerilla supporters were brothers under the skin to the right wing torturing military gorilas.
Naipaul was prescient. He also interviewed a "Third World Priest," a member of the upper class, who was later killed in military action. Live by the sword, die by the sword.
The lunacy that infected Argentine politics in the 1970s was not confined to the military.
Maduro blamed the outages on "electromagnetic and cyber attacks directed from abroad by the empire." "The right wing, together with the empire, has stabbed the electricity system, and we are trying to cure it soon," he said....
What many, such as a journalist at the WaPo,don't realize is that not only have blackouts have been a pervasive presence in Venezuela for about a decade, the Chavista's government's attempts to find scapegoats for the blackouts have been just as common as the blackouts. From the Advanced Google search for iguanas at Caracas Chronicles, I quote from "Underinvestment and Corruption Destroyed the Venezuelan Electric Grid" (October 24,2018)
The Venezuelan electric crisis has been an issue since at least 2009, when several-hour-long blackouts became a somewhat common issue. But the barely functional systems collapse harder from time to time: Earlier this year we reported prolonged blackouts across Western states, and just a few weeks ago, Zulia faced the worst chapter of the crisis in its history after high tension wires crossing the Rafael Urdaneta bridge caught fire, leaving some sectors of Maracaibo, Venezuela’s second largest city, without power for up to a hundred hours and with images that seemed taken out from HG Wells’s War of the Worlds....
The government has accused literally everyone, from iguanas and roasted rats, to El Niño, for provoking the electric crisis, but truth is that high tension wires don’t burn and transformers don’t explode because of terrorism by nature. These accidents are the consequence of decades of underinvestment and widespread corruption, recently aggravated by an economic crisis that has forced about 82% of electric industry workers out of the country.
As the article says, the blackouts have been going on for about a decade.
Advanced Google Search @ Caracas Chronicles: iguanas
Venezuela obviously made a big mistake when it nationalized electric generation and distribution.
If only they'd let electric supply remain the responsibility of private entities they could now denounce those entities as Enemies of the People.
But as it is, the government has found the enemy and it is ... government itself.
Besisdes, people did survive (and sometimes thrive) before electricity, didn't they? Perhaps it would be easier to just go back to those older technologies that don't require electricity than to fix what's broken.
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