Meet "The Culprit" behind the nationwide blackout in Venezuela

[GatoGordo]

The dictatorship scapegoats @LuisCarlos for the nationwide blackout
By Rafael Osío Cabrices - March 12, 2019

It all started with a lie. A lie organized by the State and broadcasted on prime time TV, using precisely the weapons Luis Carlos Díaz has been warned about for years.

As the lie would have it, Luis Carlos and Nelson Bocaranda knew about the looming nationwide blackout.

Nelson, a TV, radio, press and now online investigative journalism veteran, is one of the highest-profile journalists in the country. He was the only source of reliable information on the Chávez terminal illness for months, while the Maduro regime kept telling the nation that the Comandante was recovering.

Luis Carlos is a cyber activist, radio journalist and occasional Caracas Chronicles contributor who started working on new media and freedom of speech at the communications journal SIC, and then developed an international profile as a multi-channel writer and speaker on Internet-users’ rights and online journalism.

This lie was stitched out of their words, maliciously edited and tendentiously re-ordered, on a clip designed to deceive:

Link to tweet

Translation: This is how they prepared the local right and the rancid gringa right what they called 'blackout operation', which seeks to collapse the country by sabotaging the center of operations of gerenación of the National Electric System, on which most public services depend # 8Mar

This video, distributed on March 8th, claims that Luis Carlos and Nelson were aware the blackout was coming, just like US Senator Marco Rubio (the official culprit, according to the regime) and caretaker president Juan Guaidó.

Actually, Luis Carlos and Nelson were talking about the possibility of a communications blackout, organized by Russian and Chinese hackers to wipe out all chances of reporting what is happening in Venezuela. But the video, which is consistent with previous propaganda attacks against Luis Carlos, clumsily edited their words to suggest they had foreseen the power blackout just before it started, on Thursday afternoon.

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https://www.caracaschronicles.com/2019/03/12/the-dictatorship-scapegoats-luiscarlos-for-the-nationwide-blackout/

These pigs have not a shred of honor. I literally posted the message long before the blackout, and it remains in this forum. Yet look at the difference between what was SAID in the Tweet and what Chavismo offered.

SCUM. As are the people who support them.

[GatoGordo]

1. The offending Tweet that Maduro says is proof of the conspiracy!

Link to tweet

Translation: RUNRUN: They are rehearsing a bigger blackout of the Internet that would cover the whole country or the most important cities. That is why there is no connectivity or intermittency of signals throughout today. Cuba advises Russian experts present? Nobody says anything.

[DetlefK]

2. Sounds like Maduro has read "1984".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmanuel_Goldstein

[MRubio]

3. Stepson says internet cut off in Tachira.......

.............Luis Carlos, Naky's husband no less. This is starting to hit so close to home.

My woman told me last night to stop yelling "revoluccion" every time the lights go out. She's afraid the GNB will soon be looking for me.

[GatoGordo]

4. No internet in Maracay.

"radio silence" from the west.

Still no power. Water situation is worse than ever. No gasoline. No bombas

I'd say carrier pigeons were next for moving information in Venezuela, but I hear that pigeon prepared correctly is quite tasty.

Plan Conejo Part 2?

[GatoGordo]

5. Confirmed! Arrest and home search of journalist Luis Carlos Diaz by SEBIN. To El Helicoide!

(VIDEO) Confirm arrest and search of the home of journalist Luis Carlos Díaz by the Sebin. He was transferred to El Helicoide
By: Aporrea-Agencias | Tuesday, 03/12/2019 06:40 AM

translated from Spanish

Link to tweet

12-03-19.-The journalist Luz Mely Reyes reported that during the early hours of this morning the arrest of the journalist of Unión Radio Luis Carlos Díaz by the Bolivarian National Intelligence Service (SEBIN).

Mely Reyes, who witnessed part of the police procedure and was able to confirm the version through a commissioner of said agency.

He also stated through a video that the journalist was originally detained at SEBIN headquarters in Plaza Venezuela and then ordered to be transferred to El Helicoide facilities in Roca Tarpeya.

He also noted that during the night the police force searched the residence of the social communicator.

https://www.aporrea.org/ddhh/n339309.html