'Operation Blackout is underway': Russia blames US for Venezuela power crisis 🙄

[Eugene]

Source: The Guardian

'Operation Blackout is underway': Russia blames US for Venezuela power crisis

Deputy defence minister says US using a ‘broad range of techniques’ in bid to oust president Nicolás Maduro

Tom Phillips Latin America correspondent
Tue 23 Apr 2019 02.43 BST Last modified on Tue 23 Apr 2019 02.52 BST

Russia has accused the United States of deliberately causing a succession of crippling power cuts in Venezuela as part of a plot to topple its president, Nicolás Maduro, dubbed “Operation Blackout”.

The crisis-stricken South American country has been rocked by a series of nationwide power outrages since 7 March, which Maduro’s government has blamed on US-backed saboteurs and snipers but most experts attribute to poor maintenance and a bush fire that destroyed a key section of Venezuela’s power grid.

In an interview with the Moscow-funded broadcaster RT, however, Russia’s deputy defence minister, Alexander Fomin, backed Maduro’s version of events.

Fomin claimed Washington felt reluctant to launch an outright military operation against Maduro, fearing it “might rally the nation behind the current government” and anger other Latin American governments.

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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/apr/23/operation-blackout-is-underway-russia-blames-us-for-venezuela-power-crisis

[Ghost Dog]

1. Yes. Again. Can Mr. Tom Phillips, latest Guardian "Latin America correspondent", cough,

(what happened to " Joe Parkin Daniels"?) provide evidence for said bush fire, please?

It has been said there are satellite photos, from a non-military environmental monitoring satellite, from the relevant date and time and location. Can we see them please, and if not why not?

The Guardian's apparently false links lead to an apparently non-existent report, beyond this blog post here... See here:

https://upload.democraticunderground.com/110866290

If there exists, as this latest Guardian piece asserts, "widespread consensus among specialists" ("specialists" in what fields, exactly?), why can't we, the general public, see any concrete evidence on which this said "consensus" could be based?

[Ghost Dog]

2. Ok, so, thankyou Eugene, and DU in general

for allowing this truth to stand here.

Es importante.

[EX500rider]

3. Venezuela's power grid isn't advanced enough to hack.

It is old tech, not connected to the web from what I have read from Venz. electrical engineers.

As to why they have been having rolling black outs that is nothing new, the Chavez/Maduro regimes have let infrastructure fall apart.

According to the Ricardo Zuloaga Group—a group of electricity-sector experts based in Venezuela—the fact that the domestic demand for electricity exceeds the amount available for consumption is at the heart of the issue. The country currently generates about 18.3 thousand megawatts (MW) daily, but needs about 19.3 thousand MW—a gap that has required urgent measures to stabilize the electricity system.
https://www.americasquarterly.org/content/venezuelas-electricity-deficit


Chavismo in Venezuela managed to turn the electrical system of the South American country into one of the most underdeveloped and poorly maintained in the world. While the Maduro regime has announced that it will finance solar energy projects in Caribbean islands, the nation faces dozens of blackouts on a daily basis, leaving at least six states simultaneously without electric power.
For more than 15 years, the Venezuelan State has not made the necessary investments in the thermoelectric generation system. The plants are working at 10% or 20% of their capacities. For this reason, from Caracas to states in the interior of the country, people suffer from daily blackouts, sometimes to such an extent that the country’s main airport has been paralyzed.
https://panampost.com/sabrina-martin/2018/03/13/venezuela-without-power-electrical-grid-is-20-years-pushed-back/?cn-reloaded=1

[Ghost Dog]

4. Yeah. I've read all about it. Nevertheless, the "Guardian journalists" are lying.

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You don't need "the web". Stick a pendrive in it. Or, "remember?" a disgruntled human hand.

And, naturally, everyone paying attention understands that the USA electric power grid is equally out-of-date and vulnerable - And your "society" far less "solid" and therefore far more fragile.

I feel for you, freaks.

Electrical engineers, in the anti-Chaves union, don't work on the cutting-down-undergrowth along the power lines jobs. That's fundamental working-class work. Are you trying to tell us that the Venezuelan professional electricians' union (or, important members thereof) is/are not being bought and paid-for to commit treason by the Gringo regime up North?

Respectfully...