The preemies are losing their incubators. Nobody can get the doctors on the phone.
The transport isn’t working, and food is running out.
Socialism has always been about putting a society in a state of war — from the war pronouncements of its leaders yelling revolution to the socialist shortages otherwise seen only in wartime to the socialist efforts to turn neighbor against neighbor, both from class warfare and internal spies for the regime.
In Venezuela, there’s a new front — the equivalent of an EMP attack, an attack on all the people, based on the massive and unprecedented electrical blackout still covering the country.
The Washington Post’s thorough report on the matter is horrifying.
CARACAS, Venezuela — One of the severest power outages in Venezuelan history ravaged the country for a second day Friday, with hospital patients languishing in the dark, most supermarkets closed and phone service largely knocked out in the oil-rich but economically collapsing country.
Venezuela, which has been roiled by a political struggle between President Nicolás Maduro and opposition leader Juan Guaidó, has been hit by outages before. But the blackout that began Thursday evening is the longest and most widespread in recent memory, a sign of the rapid deterioration of the economy, which is expected to contract sharply in the next few weeks as U.S. sanctions on the oil industry begin to bite. Some analysts even worry that the country — once among the richest in South America — could face famine.
If you can imagine what an EMP attack would be like, this is it. The phones don’t work. The ATMs and banks don’t work, so there is no access to money. The internet doesn’t work. The refrigerators don’t work, so the food is spoiling. The subways don’t work, so there is no going to one’s job. The generators are failing at hospitals as staff struggle to keep them going and the patients are already dying. The preemies are losing their incubators. Nobody can get the doctors on the phone. The transport isn’t working, and food is running out. The water isn’t working, no water from the faucet, too bad if you get thirsty. The schools are all closed. And much of the staff with the expertise to fix the system have fled the country, while the money that could be used to hire someone from the U.S. or someplace similar to make the repairs has been stolen.
Feeling the Bern yet you fucking morons?
The conspiracy theorist in me is inclined to agree that Maduro cut the power to cut off communication inside the country. He will wait until most batteries are dead, with no way to recharge them, then pounce — to the neighborhood level.
Chavez had setup a network of minders and thugs, in typical communist fashion, for just this type of bloody door-to-door purge. I hope I am wrong and this is just a manifestation of corruption and incompetence.
Remember this the next time you (nevertrumpers and the like) are tempted to not vote to keep socialists and progressives out of power.
EMP attack?
Watching too many sci-fi horror flicks?
Or just the evening news?
We are hit with a massive EMP every day the sun comes up.
My M-1 Garand will still work.
It is obvious that CIA trolls are at work gaslighting lies. The WaPo is one of the worst in reporting fake news. The reality about Venezuela is that the USA has been the major cause of Venezuela’s problems with the very vile intent to take that country down politically,economically, and humanitarianly. There is an alternative information source that counters the WaPo and CIA liars. And it points out the suppressed truth Americans aren’t being told.
Venezuela: Mainstream Media Fake News – What the UN Rapporteur Really Said
[Note: Alfred De Zayas was the first UN investigator to go to Venezuela in 21 years]
By True Publica
Global Research, March 07, 2019
“I would also like to see the prosecutor of the International Court investigate to what extent the number of deaths related to the sanctions imposed by the US – amount to a violation of article 7 of the Statute of Rome – it defines crimes against humanity.”
“When you deliberately impose sanctions and social blockades – effectively an economic war that asphyxiates a country economy and thereby make it very difficult for that country to provide food and medical supplies, the consequence is that thousands die – you have a case of crimes against humanity.””
https://www.globalresearch.ca/venezuela-mainstream-media-fake-news/5670669
“When you deliberately impose sanctions and social blockades – effectively an economic war that asphyxiates a country economy and thereby make it very difficult for that country to provide food and medical supplies, the consequence is that thousands die – you have a case of crimes against humanity.”
Thank you for stating the case against Maduro and Socialism so succinctly.
They voted their way into socialism, now lets see them vote their way out.
Glad that sort of thing can’t happen here.
No EMP needed.
They just let plain old Socialist incompetence do the job.
Hey, this place now has its own troll. Hittin’ the big time now.
…I like how they turn it on US (read: President Trump) sanctions. Same shit they did with Cuba.
Mention of famine due to sanctions, but NO mention of Maduro burning food trucks because, Socialism…
tRuth, the tRoll.
Do not feed the tRoll.
Whilst I believe nothing that oozes out of WaPo, I also take with a pound of salt any “reporting” from the also marginalized UN.
“Speaking the truth in times of universal deceit is a revolutionary act.” Geo. Orwell
tRuth –
I’ve followed you around asking you to stop giving away our secrets. People are thinking the United States is the root of all the worlds ills.
That’s not nice.
The antidote- Owen Benjamin
The Venezuelan morons brought this on themselves. I don’t want to see even one drop of American blood spilled to help them. If we were to facilitate ‘regime change’ something tells me these morons would then install version 2.0 instead of switching operating systems. Guaido? Guano? (sp?) is no capitalist.
Not hopeful here. The alternative factions vying for political rule are all other renditions of socialism. Every one of them.
More than a regime change is needed. They, like libs here, need an awakening that working for profit is the only way to get everyone involved in bringing the best products and an overabundance, every single day, allowing billions a life far beyond scraping trash cans, eating pets, and blaming other countries for it.