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GatoGordo

(2,412 posts)
Thu Aug 16, 2018, 02:59 PM Aug 2018

A week without electricity. No comment from the Chavista hierarchy.

Zulianos meet more than 140 hours without light

Emilys Sarache / Yalezsa Zavala / Aug 16, 2018.- After the high-voltage wiring that crosses the bridge over Lake Maracaibo collapsed, the inhabitants of the state of Zulia have already completed more than 140 hours without electric service.

But the blackouts are not a matter of a week ago. The region has been suffering constant interruptions of the electric service from 4 to 6 hours a day (in some areas even more) for eight months, with the government promises to solve the situation and with the thesis of sabotage as the main cause of the problem.

The municipalities that have been most affected are Maracaibo, Jesus Enrique Lossada, La Cañada de Urdaneta, Mara, some of the East Coast of the Lake and San Francisco, reported El Universal .

However, the engineer Winston Cabas, president of the Venezuelan Electric Power Association, said that in Maracaibo only one electric line works; that is to say, that the city only reaches between 200 and 300 megawatts of a consumption that could easily reach 1,600 megawatts. On multiple occasions he has said that the electricity crisis, not only in Maracaibo, but throughout Venezuela, is due to the lack of maintenance and investment of the plants.

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http://www.noticierodigital.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=106330

Yes yes... Chavismo has a plan. The plan is for everyone to go back to the good old days of colonial Venezuela when beeswax candles were used for light and everyone was a sustenance farmer or worked as a peon and had no need for refrigeration.

iViva la Revolucion Bolivariana!
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