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So Maduro, probably with the help of his Russian advisers, has been throttling opposition web sites and content. So he probably thinks the Yanqui wizards have throttled his electricity.
Open question: how long can a regime like Maduro's survive if they can't get the power back on?
Considering the Russians have been blamed on bringing down the Ukranian power grid twice in 2015 and 2016, it's a good bet that Maduro is going to ask the Kremlin to figure this one out.

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Although Maduro blames the power outage on sabotage its grid has been teetering on the brink of collapse for some time.

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Socialism almost never loses to human agency. It's too good at propaganda and repression to be beaten by men. What kills it 9 times out of 10, if you will pardon the expression, is God. Grid collapse, famine, pandemic, hyperinflation.
Of course when the hand of God smites the ramshackle socialist enterprise there's a lot of collateral damage. People waiting for pensions that never come, free medicine that never is, electricity that's only a memory.
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