Because of the blackout a days off in Venezuela extended for one day more
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro said that due to a large-scale power outage, a days off in the country is extended for another day - until Wednesday inclusive.
As Maduro said in a televised address to the nation, on March 12 and 13, experts will continue to restore the structure of electricity supply, as well as conditions for normal life of cities. The President asked the people of the country to understand a reality and announced the termination of work and study.
Earlier, the Minister of communications and information of Venezuela Jorge Rodriguez reported that the authorities of the country against the backdrop of the ongoing energy crisis made March 12 the fifth day off in a row, but there was no speech about Wednesday, March 13. (...)"
In Venezuela, after turning off the light looted hundreds of shops
The attackers for two days looted more than 350 stores in the Venezuelan state of Sulia, which from March 7 was left without electricity (like most of the country).
According to TASS, citing data from the local Federation of chambers of Commerce and associations, the authorities reacted to the robberies with great delay. Bandits stole from grocery stores, broke into shops with household appliances; they carried away even chairs from fast food restaurants." [https://www.vesti.ru/doc.html?id=3125512&tid=113323]
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13 March 2019 00: 49
In Venezuela, investigating the involvement of the opposition to power outages
The prosecutor's office of Venezuela began investigation concerning the oppositionist Juan Guido. Except disrespect for the power and public mockery at a justice system, Guido impute also possible participation in large-scale blackouts through the whole country. (...)
Meanwhile electricity gradually returns to streets of Caracas though still in the capital of Venezuela the subway does not function and serious problems with water supply are felt. The situation with mobile communication and the mobile Internet improved." [https://www.vesti.ru/doc.html? id=3125517]
The POLITICAL CRISIS IN VENEZUELA MAR 12, 21:49 updated 23:52
United States in the coming days, will introduce new sanctions against Venezuela
Restrictions, in particular, will affect financial institutions
WASHINGTON, March 12. /TASS./ The United States will introduce very significant new sanctions [against financial institutions, and there will also be a new visa cancellations] against Venezuelan authorities in the next few days. This was stated on Tuesday by the US special representative for Venezuela Elliott Abrams at a briefing at the state Department. (...)" [https://tass.ru/mezhdunarodnaya-panorama/6210626?utm_source=yxnews&utm_medium=desktop]
The comment.
1. The wide energy blackout in Venezuela has become a fact.
Also became a fact that the general public will not learn the absolutely reliable information about the blackout reasons (never?) (in the nearest future?).
There is a set of versions. Each person can choose the version that he considers the most convincing.
2. Previously, the following statements were made:
"The reign of Hugo Chavez-Nicolas Maduro seems a quite a lucky period." (January 14, 2019 January 23, 2019)
"Many people involuntarily transfer a part of that, partly "mystical", an aura, which surrounded Hugo Chávez, onto Nicolás Maduro" (February 24, 2019).
Why these statements today may to come into a memory?
Because of the consequences of blackout.
(A) Nicolas Maduro presented the blackout as a result of "hostile forces".
Subconsciously, at some people are growing a patriotic sentiments, a loyalty to Nicolas Maduro and a hostility to a "hostile forces".
B) The average normal citizen rather far from a raw material pie who is not understanding why in the normal country abnormally high levels were established
emigration,
inflation,
crime
and other negative phenomena,
is put in position of person forced to survive.
Political activity recedes into the background. To the forefront there are or a simplest needs (safety, water, food and others), or prospects of emigration. The regime is exempted from excess political activity and from political opponents.
The volume of a raw material pie, on the one hand, and the mass of persons claiming to receive its crumbs and pieces, on the other hand, are coming to a relative equilibrium.
Summary. Mysteriously, the energy blackout did not create a significant problems for Nicolas Maduro. Someone will say that the blackout was useful for him. Increased a kind of a patriotism and loyalty. A certain dislike for "hostile forces" has grown.
Perhaps the situation can be deciphered through the use of a set of rational concepts.
But someone remembers "luck" and "mystical aura"...
There is a kind of a "cleaning" of society. It, this "cleaning", is not declared by anyone, is not the result of an explicit system of measures, but occurs "spontaneously" as a "natural" result of events: political, economic, energy ...
March 13, 2019 03:31
Translation from Russian into English: March 13, 2019 04:30.
Владимир Владимирович Залесский "Рассказ об интересе к событиям в Венесуэле 13 марта 2019 года".