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Caribbean-Latin America |
At least Mussolini made the trains run on time |
2008-10-23 |
SAN FELIX, Venezuela (Reuters) -- Despite having some of the world's largest energy reserves, Venezuela is increasingly struggling to maintain basic electrical service, a growing challenge for leftist President Hugo Chavez. The OPEC nation has suffered three nationwide blackouts this year, and chronic power shortages have sparked protests from the western Andean highlands to San Felix, a city of mostly poor industrial workers in the sweltering south. Shoddy electrical service is now one of Venezuelans' top concerns, according to a recent poll, and may be a factor in elections next month for governors and mayors in which Chavez allies are expected to lose key posts, in part on complaints of poor services. |
Posted by:tu3031 |
#3 OR is it that Cuba can't PAY for anything? bingo! give that man a cupie doll |
Posted by: Abu do you love 2008-10-23 16:57 |
#2 This kind of crap just annoys me all to hell. Why in the name of God is the US embargo for Cuba's sh**** electrical development? There are dozens of countries that trade with Cuba or could. What? Russia so hard up that they can't deal with electricity? OR is it that Cuba can't PAY for anything? |
Posted by: AlanC 2008-10-23 11:17 |
#1 What a wonderful live it must be in a leftist paradise. |
Posted by: gromky 2008-10-23 11:05 |