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Venezuelan blackout hits oil exports; residents scramble for food

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By Shaylim Valderrama and Anggy Polanco

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Venezuela's electricity network has suffered from years of underinvestment and lack of maintenance.

No need for anyone to blame the CIA. Lack of maintenance is enough. Remember the collapse of the bridge over the Mississippi River near Minneapolis a few years ago? Same reason.

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Clearly Maduro doesn't give a hoot about the people there, so why the hell would they vote to keep him in?

I imagine to keep the Great Satan at bay. That done, hopefully they can get back to a proper standard of living, with no interference from the Russian or Chinese influences, either.

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sabotage by the United States

Those dirty rascals!

people struggling to obtain water and food.

I imagine Maduro's popularity has taken a hit.

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Those dirty rascals!

Aye, sown the seeds of their downfall. I'm sure American refugees will be welcomed with open arms when it all goes down, mind.

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The US continues its attempted  march for global domination. The US has instigated regime in many parts of the world and the Western Powers (Western Wimps) continue to be intimidated by the US and kowtow to Washington. The only way any nation can maintain its sovereignty is to have nuclear arms.   Notice how the US has not tried to overthrow the Chinese government or the Russian Government or the Indian Government. If India continues in its march to economic power, it too will be targeted by the US, The US want total economic and military supremacy.

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Those dirty rascals!

Aye, sown the seeds of their downfall.

Hee hee!

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The US wants fair play, which is an unknown idea to socialists and communists based on the example countries in the world.

The US didn't do anything to the power system in Vz. Power is disrupted all over world almost always by rodents and birds: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/01/12/a-terrifying-and-hilarious-map-of-squirrel-attacks/

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-47492624

Last October, Electricity Minister Luis Motta Dominguez posted on Instagram that outages were caused by "animals such as rats, mice, snakes, cats, squirrels" getting into the hydroelectric system's substations - before adding that "of course iguanas are included".

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The US is very much responsible for Venezuela's problems; they'll do whatever they can to get cheap Venezuelan oil.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ii5MlQgGXyk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HeNCbXVHrR8

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All the fault of the US. Check out Greg Palast for the truth.

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