I really feel sorry for the citizens of Venezuela - it has the potential (huge oil and mineral reserves) to be a wonderful and prosperous nation but they voted to receive free government cheese and are now paying the price.
The Chavez regime nationalized a lot of the Venezuelan infrastructure to this end result - from Yahoo/Reuters:
Venezuela blackout leaves commuters scrambling, silences president
A blackout cut power to much of Venezuela on Friday, snarling traffic in the capital Caracas and other major cities as authorities scrambled to restore electricity after the outage, which twice interrupted a presidential broadcast.
Pedestrians streamed into the streets of Caracas as the blackout shuttered the underground metro trains and left frustrated drivers honking in the chaos without stoplights.
Government ministers in the late afternoon said they expected power would be restored shortly. It was the second nationwide major electricity outage in less than a year.
Some more:
Critics call the power problems a symptom of 15 years of socialist policies that have left the country without a steady supply of energy despite having the world's largest oil reserves.
Late socialist leader Hugo Chavez in 2007 nationalized the country's power sector as part of a broad wave of state takeovers.
At least they didn't have to endure much of Maduro's bloviating. Will Maduro take the blame for the crumbling infrastructure? Not going to hold my breath on that one...
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