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2019 Venezuelan blackout
A September 2010 memo by a U.S.-funded organization that helped train Venezuelan coup leader Juan Guaidó and his allies identified the potential collapse of the country’s electrical sector as "a watershed event" that "would likely have the impact of galvanizing public unrest in a way that no opposition group could ever hope to generate." The note was authored by Srdja Popovic of the Center for Applied Non-Violent Action and Strategies (CANVAS), a Belgrade-based "democracy promotion" organization funded by the U.S. that has trained thousands of US-aligned youth activists in countries where the West seeks regime change.[1]
In the 2010 memo, published by WikiLeaks and analyzed by Max Blumenthal[1], Popovic declared, "A key to Chavez’s current weakness is the decline in the electricity sector." Popovic explicitly identified the Simon Bolivar Hydroelectric Plant as a friction point, emphasizing that "water levels at the Guri dam are dropping, and Chavez has been unable to reduce consumption sufficiently to compensate for the deteriorating industry."
In March 2019, the scenario outlined by Popovic played out almost exactly as written. Starting around 5 PM on March 7, an electricity blackout affected most of Venezuela for several days after an alleged cyber attack crashed the country’s main electricity generator, the Simon Bolivar Hydroelectric Plant (Guri Dam) in Bolivar State. The outage affected 70 percent of the country, including the capital Caracas. Soon after, a second major outage took place as a result of a renewed cyberattack, leading to months of power blackouts[2].
At noon on March 7, during a hearing on Venezuela at the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee, Senator Marco Rubio explicitly called for[3] the U.S. to stir "widespread unrest," declaring that it "needs to happen" in order to achieve regime change. "Venezuela is going to enter a period of suffering no nation in our hemisphere has confronted in modern history," Rubio proclaimed.[4]
References
- ↑ a b https://web.archive.org/web/20190318061712/https://consortiumnews.com/2019/03/12/us-regime-change-blueprint-proposed-venezuelan-electricity-blackouts-as-watershed-event/
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20190318035530/https://venezuelanalysis.com/news/14374
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20190318061712/https://youtu.be/bRVTNyoMfWQ?t=8072
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20190318061712/https://www.voanews.com/a/us-lawmakers-warn-maduro-loyalists-in-venezuela/4817812.html
