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“I want to announce that in connection with the commercial introduction of my inventions, I will provide general professional services such as consulting and electrician engineer.” Nikola Tesla
Our Venezuela continues to face an electrical crisis, with continuous rations and cuts. The electricity generation is 80% below its capacity, which affects millions of people in this land of grace. The government justifies the situation by attributing it to the drought of reservoirs and climate change. Some blame the energy evils to the past and present errors of the government in more than two decades. I remember an anecdote of businessman Oscar Machado Zuloaga. During the first government of Dr. Rafael Caldera there were attempts to nationalize his company. At that time, a journalist approached Machado Zuloaga and asked: “What will you do if the government ends up nationalizing the company?” His answer was overwhelming: “I would immediately mount a candle factory!”
This response suggests that electrical services should be in private hands and not a group of people who come to power with intentions far from efficiency in the provision of public services, therefore, without the minimum intention of offering solutions to the electrical crisis. Chaos reached its high point on March 7, 2019, when Venezuela was paralyzed due to failures in the electricity service in several states of the country. Nobody gave convincing arguments and feedbacks about this, only murmurings were heard, which was a “sabotage” against the main electricity generation dam in the country, Guri. In order not to make the longest story, they blamed the United States for the mass blackout in Venezuela. Maduro said it, in military acts within the framework of the celebrations for the anniversary of the birth of Simón Bolívar. That the mass blackout was due to an “electromagnetic” attack. Everything stayed there, the energy chaos followed, with the Bolichicos making feast with the thousand millionaire resources assigned to the electricity sector, and the people, rather than getting used, resigned themselves to the insurmountable effects of the electrical crisis, for auction, the vast majority of workers and technicians in the sector left the country, overwhelmed by the low income and incentives in the Corpoelec company.
The electrical crisis remained and, for now, the Government of Nicolás Maduro launched another electrical ration plan, which is applied since Monday, March 24, 2025 and for six weeks, which would mainly affect the organizations of the public administration, when it affects us all by the quasi -paralysis of the public administration. This is something surreal in the so -called richest country in the American continent, but more paradoxical is that it has replicas beyond the seas. This week the electric power crisis touched the door to the European continent, over there in Spain, Portugal and areas of southern France were distressed, suffered a mass blackout late on Monday, April 28. The electric interruption at that time forced the total suspension of rail traffic and significantly impacted the operation of air traffic. Infrastructure such as hospitals also suffered the mass cut and were forced to activate emergency energy supply systems, as their own electric generators. People walked disoriented, desperate, in the midst of vehicles in traffic jams in the adjacencies of the Plaza de Cibeles, in Madrid, Spain, as could be seen on social networks
In the European countries affected by that megaapagón, the heads of government were very cautious to respond to the citizenship, nor for the reed talked about iguanas or rabbiedos, even though the networks were flooded with the aggrieved iguana with their trunk reaching the old continent. The Portuguese Prime Minister, Luís Montenegro, indicated that, despite ignoring the reason for the blackout, everything pointed out that its origin was in Spain. “We know that the origin was not in Portugal; as we know, we have the interconnection with Spain and everything indicates that it was there where this whole situation originated, but I do not want to speculate,” he added that they are working with the Government of Spain to understand “better” the situation, while the Portuguese intelligence services are investigating. In other words, the bulge was drained. Result, the iguana was acquitted in Lusitanian land.
The president of the Spanish Government, Pedro Sánchez, made an appearance before the media, to which he said he was in search of an “accurate diagnosis” to determine the causes that will be behind the unpublished event and be able to make the decisions so that such an event does not occur again. God wants and so that they do not begin to build a narrative similar to that of the Venezuelan regime on the electrical crisis. Actually, a situation that already has not only Europeans in suspense, but thousands of Venezuelans who raised candles to Columbus, fleeing, among other things, from the uncomfortable and shocking blackouts. If they hear about that “electromagnetic” attacks, worse, worse, an iguana eating electrical cables, turns off and let’s go. Meanwhile, in the collective imaginary, another surreal reality emerged: “He went from Venezuela to Spain, the electrical crisis.”
@robertveraz
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