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Related: About this forumBlackout rages on, but Max is unaffected
https://www.npr.org/2019/03/11/702179263/this-is-going-to-end-ugly-venezuela-s-power-outages-drag-on'This Is Going To End Ugly': Venezuela's Power Outage Drags On
Venezuela has been in the grip of a crippling blackout for four days and the humanitarian situation there is growing increasingly dire.
Signs of the crisis are everywhere you look in the Venezuelan capital. "Drive around Caracas, and you see long lines of cars waiting for hours at the few gas stations still operational," NPR's Philip Reeves reported from the city.
"Motorists park on highways, cell phones aloft, searching for a signal. The rich have taken refuge in luxury hotels. The poor stand in lines in the street," Reeves added.
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The precarious humanitarian situation is worsening as the country remains in a political stalemate. The crisis pits embattled President Nicolás Maduro against opposition leader Juan Guaidó, who took the oath of office at a rally in January and is backed by the U.S. and dozens of other countries that recognize him as Venezuela's rightful leader.
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Blackout rages on, but Max is unaffected (Original Post)
Bacchus4.0
Mar 2019
OP
2naSalit
(86,076 posts)1. I turn them off when
this line of propaganda gets rolling.
GatoGordo
(2,412 posts)2. Meh. The truth isn't for everyone. EOM
MRubio
(285 posts)3. Gotta agree........
..........everything's peachy here, especially if one likes drinking, cooking, and bathing with sewer water.
https://www.caracaschronicles.com/2019/03/12/even-from-the-guaire/
GatoGordo
(2,412 posts)4. Max is back in the States
Devotion to Chavismo has its limits.
Maybe he ran out of beer to drink? I'd hate for him to have to eat that expensive dog food that he whined about!