Isn't this the system just "nationalized" by Chavez?


Widespread power outages in Venezuela

NEW: 60 percent of power restored by 7 p.m. local time, official says

Caracas mayor says explosion at power station is being investigated


(CNN) -- Power returned slowly to Venezuela on Tuesday night, a few hours after widespread outages blacked out nearly half the country, trapping people in elevators, stalling subways, filling streets with pedestrians and forcing hospitals to switch to emergency generators.


The streets of Caracas, Venezuela, are thronged with people during Tuesday's power outage.

"We understand that at 1600 hours -- that is to say at 4 p.m. (4:30 p.m. ET) -- there was a blackout on a national level that was produced by an explosion, which is being investigated" in the Guri hydroelectric power station, Caracas Mayor Juan Barreto said.

"That produced a blackout in 16 states of the country, particularly those of the central north coastal area."

The city's emergency plan kicked in, and about 400 firefighters in training had reported for duty to help, he said. City firefighters had gone to 37 buildings in the capital to free people from elevators.

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Man... that's disasterous.

I suspect this was committed by US-paid capitalist terrorists, they supported a coup against comrade Chavez in the past and now are choosing terrorism and economic sabotage against the legitimate socialist government of comrade Chavez.

on one hand, i feel bad for the average venezuelan who is suffering during this time without electricity and having the capability to do the most primitive things...

however, on the other, i don't feel bad because the reason why you are having these problems is because of your fascist dictator who rules over you, yet you are too blind to see it.

so, you are on your own. don't ask me or my country for help.

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Yes they must have been fooled by all those elections they keep having, you know, the ones with international scrutiny. Or that time he didn't get his referenda passed, and he sneakily didn't violently crack-down on the populace- I bet not many of them saw through that one.

Tell me, is it really that easy to turn people against a democratic leader, just because he threatens the a part of the economic hegemony of your country? Weird.

chavez still holds support from a large portion of the very poor and uneducated who live in rural communities.

i keep wondering why the US doesn't support a coup d'etat or try that again, even though it failed a few years ago. we clearly saw then that the generals of the army and the soldiers hold allegiance to the generals alone, not chavez.

he has shut down the independent media outlets, etc. a lot of the populace outside of the cities don't know what is going on, you are correct my Australian friend.

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Viva la revolucion, VIVA!

yeah Chavez probably hit the wrong button. probably thought he saw inbound missiles.........HA

You have to have a good laugh at the American Conservative. There have been many massive power outages in th US throughout it's history and not once was it blamed on the President. Venezuela has one where power was returned a couple hours later and it becomes the fault of Chavez. Chavez has faults but blaming him for this makes you all look pretty foolish...and petty.

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well none of US like chavez. he's a pal of yours???? he's just your basic incompetent boob. and the world laffs in his face.