Another major blackout leaves western Venezuela ‘totally affected’

Tuesday, May 10th 2011 - 10:25 UTC

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Venezuela restored early Tuesday 90% of power knocked out by a blackout Monday that hit 10 states in the western part of the country. This is the second major power failure in just over a month. Read full article

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riomarcos
Another failure of socialism, but I'm sure that clown Chavez will blame it on EL IMPERIO!
May 10th, 2011 - 02:03 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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GeoffWard
The cause?

“Insufficient Investment ,and problems have been exacerbated since the industry's wholesale nationalization in 2007.”

Its not socialism, its not capitalism, because either ideologies can 'keep the lights on'

- its just downright incompetent governance and management.

And don't think I'm getting at Chavez - the same outages occur in my own country, Brasil.
May 10th, 2011 - 07:21 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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riomarcos
Haha! Brasil is my country too, and trust me, it is socialism. I've lived in real capitalist countries before, and I can tell you they don't have power outages. We're cursed with some of the most incompetent, corrupt, and inept governments on the planet today. I would not be surprised if FIFA and IOC rescind their decision about Brasil hosting the Cup or the Olympics. As a matter of fact, you can't even spell inePT, corruPT, and incomPeTent without a PT.
May 10th, 2011 - 09:05 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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