Venezuelans have seen better days, that’s for sure. And at 4:00 local time on 7 March this year, someone turned out the lights in Venezuela, nationwide. It was reported as an infrastructure problem in the corporate press. Seems there was a little problem at the Simón Bolívar hydroelectric plant, and the lights stayed out for days. It wasn’t some little glitch. The Maduro government claimed it was a cyber-attack from the US. The corporate press blamed it on Maduro and mismanagement. It was then a matter of he-said-she-said and rhetorical back and forth. Meanwhile, Marco Rubio spilled the beans, as did Eliot Abrams, in what turned out to be a real comedy of errors and what the evidence points to as sloppy covert operations. It would appear Venezuela’s power outage was a case of a ‘Plan B’ gone wrong. More on that a little later. Continue reading “The night the lights went out in Venezuela”
The night the lights went out in Venezuela
