{"id":44318,"date":"2019-03-08T20:45:53","date_gmt":"2019-03-09T01:45:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=44318"},"modified":"2019-03-08T20:45:55","modified_gmt":"2019-03-09T01:45:55","slug":"venezuela-deploys-troops-to-protect-national-power-grid-from-us-aggression%ef%bb%bf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=44318","title":{"rendered":"Venezuela Deploys Troops &#8220;To Protect National Power Grid&#8221; From US &#8220;Aggression&#8221;\ufeff"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2019-03-08\/much-venezuela-now-24-hours-darkness-maduro-blames-us-electricity-war\">Venezuela Deploys Troops &#8220;To Protect National Power Grid&#8221; From US &#8220;Aggression&#8221;<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>update:<\/strong>&nbsp;Though some parts of Venezuela&#8217;s power grid have reportedly begun to come back online after the country was plunged into nation-wide darkness beginning Thursday evening, the mass blackout crisis continues, which Caracas has blamed on US-orchestrated saboteurs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To prevent further &#8220;sabotage&#8221; Venezuela&#8217;s Defense Ministry has vowed in an official statement via state TV social media channels to&nbsp;<strong>deploy armed forces to protect the national electricity system for the duration of the power outage<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cAll the security agencies, civil protection and the nation\u2019s integral defense system are deployed to protect and help the people across the country,\u201d a statement said, via\u00a0<em>Bloomberg<\/em>. This as official accusations against Washington for conducting what Maduro previously called\u00a0<strong>a US &#8220;electricity war&#8221;<\/strong>\u00a0have become even more strident.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/telesurenglish\/status\/1104127215246155776\/photo\/1\">View image on Twitter<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/telesurenglish\/status\/1104127215246155776\/photo\/1\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/media\/D1KlkkOWkAUbvZH?format=jpg&amp;name=small\" alt=\"View image on Twitter\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/telesurenglish\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/profile_images\/1032833751603204097\/8iBFQjdC_normal.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/telesurenglish\"><strong><\/strong><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/telesurenglish\/status\/1104127215246155776\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/LIVE?src=hash\">#LIVE<\/a> | Venezuela&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/vladimirpadrino\">@vladimirpadrino<\/a>: &#8220;This [recent blackout] is an aggression against  our country that has hurt every Venezuelan, regardless of color or political allegiance.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The defense ministry previously vowed to put more security patrols on the streets after dark, as already high-crime areas of Caracas are now considered no-go zones as a result of the blackout.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Venezuela Deploys Troops &#8220;To Protect National Power Grid&#8221; From US &#8220;Aggression&#8221; update:&nbsp;Though some parts of Venezuela&#8217;s power grid have reportedly begun to come back online after the country was plunged into nation-wide darkness beginning Thursday evening, the mass blackout crisis continues, which Caracas has blamed on US-orchestrated saboteurs. To prevent further &#8220;sabotage&#8221; Venezuela&#8217;s Defense Ministry [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[83,1574,827,851,24587],"class_list":["post-44318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-bloomberg","tag-power-grid","tag-united-states","tag-venezuela","tag-venezuelan-army"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44318"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44320,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44318\/revisions\/44320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}