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2019-03-09 Caribbean-Latin America

Chaos as machines fail, patients die, in Venezuela blackout

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Posted by Fred 2019-03-09 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top
File under: Commies

#1 Where are all those Green Socialists, aka water melons, with their magic power? Don't they at least have candles? Or whale oil lamps? Or flash lights?

/sarc

Posted by AlanC 2019-03-09 07:34|| 2019-03-09 07:34|| Front Page Top

#2 I'm curious as to the cause of this nation-wide blackout. Gawd knows journalists are not going to look into it, bless their black little hearts.

I can see isolated failures due to lack of maintenance or fuel shortages, but the entire power grid?

Posted by SteveS 2019-03-09 10:54|| 2019-03-09 10:54|| Front Page Top

#3 Venezuela: Socialism Dies in the Darkness
By Richard Fernandez

pretty much covers it

Posted by Frank G 2019-03-09 11:39|| 2019-03-09 11:39|| Front Page Top

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