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Watch a string of Venezuela's power stations explode through the night

Question: What did socialists use before candles? Answer: Electricity. And there's nothing like Twitter for recording the fireworks of socialism.

September 2, 2018

Watch a string of Venezuela's power stations explode through the night

By Monica Showalter
Socialism and electricity don't seem to mix in Maracaibo, Venezuela, where a humongous string of power substation explosions occurred on Aug. 31, and were posted in full Technicolor by the locals on Twitter. Some choice pickings here:

StratOn‏ @straton_ec
#Venezuela an electrical substation explodes in #Maracaibo According to the Government: it's foreign sabotage According to the opposition: it's #Maduro's fault The collapse of public services inflicts pressure on the population and the #migration crisis #UNHCR @OnlineMagazin

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Elias Elkeger‏ @elkeger
#SinLuz #WithoutLight What a disaster #Maracaibo for God! What a disaster #Venezuela! The party of the inefficiency of the electricity companies of the Narcor Regime of Nicolas Maduro. #SOSVenezuela

Cristian Crespo F.

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Shaun Murray‏ @BestWebEnglish
#Venezuela: NEW YEAR CELEBRATIONS? No, they're images of all the electricity substations' transformers blowing up & on fire in Maracaibo, Zulia State, leaving residents without power #31Aug[TR.] via @TemplarioResisT https://twitter.com/TemplarioResisT/status/1035445150233886720 …

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TemplarioResistencia‏ @TemplarioResisT
#31Ago SEÑORES NO CREAN QUE ES FIN DE AÑO y 31 de diciembre en #Maracaibo No... No... No... Es que están explotando las estaciones y todos los transformadores en Maracaibo #Zulia #Venezuela el colapso llegó. Falta es #Caracas y que bajen la gente del cerro carajo. #TeamHDP

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RT News has a story here.
So in addition to people eating out of garbage bins, fighting for scraps with machetes, fleeing for their lives on foot to the next available country as actual refugees, enduring million-percent inflation and no money, learning that ‘free’ health care means no health care, bathing from buckets because of socialism's effect on the water supply, suffering a huge death toll from world's highest crime rate, now there's no electricity due to overloaded circuits and Cuban socialist mismanagement of resources. (Venezuela turned its electricity management over to Jurassic communist Cuban functionaries back in 2010).
Nice work, socialism.
It's just a revolting coda to all the terrible things that are going on in that hellhole, nothing extremely important, given the scale of the failures. But it's also an amazing irony, given that Venezuela has the world's largest energy reserves and Maracaibo, Venezuela's second-largest city, was built on oil development. Through the miracle of socialism, Venezuela's equivalent to Houston can't even keep the lights on. It's also an amazing irony for a second reason: In one of V.I. Lenin's most noted speeches before the Council of the People's Commissars in 1920, he famously declared: Communism is Soviet Power plus electrification of the whole country. Sure thing, Vlad. What did socialists use before candles? Yup, electricity.
Kind of shows you just how poisonous the socialism pill is through the entire the body politic. Any comment, Bernie? Any explanation, Alexandria?

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Venezuelan power station explosion illuminates night sky (VIDEOS)

Published time: 31 Aug, 2018 11:14 Edited time: 1 Sep, 2018 09:04
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An explosion at an electrical substation in Maracaibo, Venezuela, has showered streets with sparks and caused further blasts, plunging much of the city into darkness.
The initial blast occurred at approximately 1:36 am local time on Friday at the Las Tarabas electrical substation, reports Caraota Digital. Eyewitness videos show the initial explosions illuminating the entire night sky as awe-struck onlookers cry out in dismay.

“The whole street is exploding! Look!” said one stunned local as sparks rained down from the electrical cables running the entire length of the street as multiple detonations rumbled in the distance. “Those first explosions were horrific.”


Maracaibo, in northwestern Venezuela, is the country’s second-largest city with a population of approximately 1.5 million inhabitants. According to media reports, the city has been hit with several similar explosions in the past six months. A local city councillor said the cause of Friday’s explosion is still unknown.
Earlier this week another of Maracaibo’s electrical substations exploded, reports Version Final. Similar explosions rocked the city and left thousands without power for an extended period of time in April and May of this year.
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