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COLGATE4

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1. This is even more pathetic when you consider that

Reply to GatoGordo (Original post)

Wed Mar 21, 2018, 08:33 AM

Mar 2018

prior to Chavez' election the government of Carlos Andres Perez had a massive program for improving electric generation and distribution in Venezuela. They actually began it with a huge success on Margarita island but then Chavez was elected. He promptly nationalized the system of Margarita island and cancelled all the rest of the very ambitious plan. Since then, it has been a one-two punch of "roba-roba" (unbridled robbery) and total neglect of an already overburdened and inadequate electric system leading to the current deplorable state of affairs.

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Spring has arrived in Venezuela. BLACKOUT season! It's "dying time" again! [View all] GatoGordo Mar 2018 OP

This is even more pathetic when you consider that COLGATE4 Mar 2018 #1

When it's "Spring" in the northern hemisphere ... left-of-center2012 Mar 2018 #2

Venezuela is in the Northern Hemisphere...6.4238 N, 66.5897 W. It's spring. GatoGordo Mar 2018 #3