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Related: About this forumMarco Rubio Says Venezuelan Explosion Occurred At 'German Dam,' Who Is A Journalist And Not A Dam
03/10/2019 06:36 pm ET
The Republican senators comments on Venezuelas power outages came back to bite him on Saturday.
By Sanjana Karanth
Sen. Marco Rubios comments this weekend on widespread power outages in Venezuela came back to bite him after the German Dam he said exploded turned out to be the name of a journalist covering the issue.
Today another transformer explosion at the German Dam in Bolivar State caused another massive blackout, the Florida Republican tweeted Saturday. The result? Critically ill patients have died, the #Caracas metro remains out of service & few if any flights have arrived at or departed from Caracas in over 20 hours.
Link to tweet
Rubio is correct that there was an explosion that cut off electricity in some areas. A transformer exploded in the Sidor substation in Guayana, a city in the Venezuelan state of Bolívar. That information was reported by a journalist by the name of Germán Dam, who Rubio seemed to think was an actual, literal dam.
More:
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/marco-rubio-german-dam-venezuela-blackout_n_5c857f69e4b0ed0a0014a801
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https://www.democraticunderground.com/10142283199
Judi Lynn
(160,217 posts)Monday, March 11th, 2019 | Post created Uriy
U.S. Senator Marco Rubio said that the cause of the outages in Venezuela was the explosion of a transformer on a non-existent German dam (German Dam). Later, the Congressman was informed that Herman Dam is the name of the journalist who reported about the accident.
Reuters
Today, another explosion of the transformer at the German dam (German Dam) in Bolivar state have provoked a massive power outage, wrote Rubio on Twitter, noting that the accident sick patients died, and the metro of Caracas has stopped working.
Senator @marcorubio, an important transformer exploded in Bolívar and that, in part, again collapsed the Venezuelan Electric System; however it was not in a dam, much less german.
My name is Germán Dam, I am one of the journalists who published the information.
😎🤘😊 https://t.co/DicWDJzlfQ
Germán Dam (@GEDV86) 9 Mar 2019
Later, the journalist Herman Ladies noted that the main transformer really exploded in the Bolivar.
However, it was not on the dam, especially not in German. My name is Herman Give, Im one of the journalists who published this information, he wrote in response to Rubio.
More:
https://24-my.info/a-u-s-senator-told-about-non-existent-german-dam-in-venezuela/
Judi Lynn
(160,217 posts)SEN. MARCO RUBIO BLAMES POWER OUTAGE ON 'GERMAN DAM' EXPLOSION, DOESN'T REALIZE 'GERMÁN DAM' IS JOURNALIST'S NAME
BY CHRIS MORRAN ON 3/10/19 AT 3:28 PM
Florida Senator Marco Rubio has been a vocal critic of the regime of disputed Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, particularly in recent days as widespread power outages wreak havoc throughout the South American nation. However, Rubio's zeal to highlight this ongoing problem led the lawmaker to make an embarrassing goof.
"Today another transformer explosion at the German Dam in Bolivar State caused another massive blackout," tweeted Rubio on Saturday. "The result? Critically ill patients have died, the #Caracas metro remains out of service & few if any flights have arrived at or departed from Caracas in over 20 hours."
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While there was indeed an explosion that took out large chunks of the power grid, there does not appear to be any German Dam in the Venezuelan state of Bolívar.
Rather, it looks like Rubio goofed and somehow confused the name of South American journalist reporting on the outages with the actual source of the blackout as noted by none other than journalist Germán Dam himself.
More:
https://www.newsweek.com/sen-marco-rubio-blames-power-outage-german-dam-explosion-doesnt-realize-1357712?piano_t=1