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| Explosion caused massive blackout in Zulia |
| 2019-03-14 |
| [ELUNIVERSAL] On Tuesday, a strong explosion occurred in the electric substation west of Maracaibo, after having remained five days without electricity due to the fault in the Guri. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #3 A land of plenty where people are starving thanks to socialism (sarc). If it is not on NPR drive-time news, then it didn't happen. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2019-03-14 10:09 |
| #2 The other day they said it was a "grass fire." Maybe people firing grass in the control room? |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2019-03-14 10:04 |
| #1 You might have asked "where the heck is Zulia?" From wiki: Zulia State ; Spanish: Estado Zulia, is one of the 23 states of Venezuela. The state capital is Maracaibo. As of the 2011 census, it has a population of 3,704,404, the largest population among Venezuela's states. It is also one of the few states (if not the only one) in Venezuela in which voseo (the use of vos as a second person singular pronoun) is widely used. Zulia State is in northwestern Venezuela, bordering Lake Maracaibo, the largest body of water of its kind in Latin America. Its basin covers one of the largest oil and gas reserves in the Western Hemisphere. Zulia is economically important to the country from its oil and mineral exploitation, but it is also one of the major agricultural areas of Venezuela, highlighting the region's contribution in areas such as livestock, bananas, fruits, meat, and milk. The state is coterminous with the eponymous region of Zulia." A land of plenty where people are starving thanks to socialism (sarc). Statism/central control and redistribution of wealth don't work except for the few elites at the top of government. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2019-03-14 08:35 |