.Venezuela struggles with repeated power outages

[Bacchus39]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110613/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/lt_venezuela_blackoutsVenezuela struggles with repeated power outages


CARACAS, Venezuela – President Hugo Chavez accused his political rivals on Sunday of sabotaging the country's electricity grid and trying to pin the blame on his government for blackouts plaguing much of Venezuela.

Repeated power blackouts in recent months have affected areas stretching from Venezuela's western border with Colombia to eastern regions where hydroelectric dams produce roughly a third of the electricity that Venezuelans consume.

Many Venezuelans in affected areas appear to be growing impatient as government officials promise solutions to a problem that has persisted since 2009 despite billions of dollars in investment aimed at revamping the power grid.

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Chavez accused his foes of provoking the outages, without presenting evidence of sabotage.

[naaman fletcher]

1. well, its either sabotage or drought

It can't be that Chavez is mismanaging the country.

[Bacchus39]

2. we have to eliminate drought as a possibility this year because of the extensive rains during spring

and inept leadership is out of the question because its Hugo, therefore that only leaves sabotage, just like Hugo said. see how easy that was???

even while on medical tourism to remove a pus filled pelvis abscess (wonder how that happened??) he is in control and knows where to assign blame.

[joshcryer]

8. If it is sabatoge where are the arrests?

Or can we expect trumped up arrests in the near future? Probably political candidates.

[Bacchus39]

3. p.s. someone removed a recommendation!!!! ay dios mio, que antidemocratica!!!!!

waaaaahhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!

[naaman fletcher]

4. Oh my god its censorship!!!!!! nt.

[Bacchus39]

5. and I just know this thread was headed for the greatest threads page

but for the trolls.

[joshcryer]

7. lol

Funny.

[joshcryer]

6. At first I thought this was a repost of last year or earlier this year.

So I guess they didn't fix the problem after all.