{"id":50337,"date":"2019-12-26T08:51:04","date_gmt":"2019-12-26T13:51:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=50337"},"modified":"2019-12-26T08:51:08","modified_gmt":"2019-12-26T13:51:08","slug":"venezuela-collapse-looting-hunger-blackouts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=50337","title":{"rendered":"Venezuela collapse: looting, hunger, blackouts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"http:\/\/energyskeptic.com\/2019\/looting-on-the-rise-as-venezuela-runs-out-of-food-electricity\/\">Venezuela collapse: looting, hunger, blackouts<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/energyskeptic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Venezuela-looted-grocery-store-San-Cristobal.jpg?w=640\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11024\"\/><figcaption>Looted grocery store in San Cristobal, Venezuela<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Preface.<\/strong>&nbsp;Venezuela is experiencing a double whammy of drought and low oil prices, which has lead to blackouts and inability to import food, ultimately due to their oil production peaking in 1997.&nbsp; The same fate awaits the U.S. someday when oil declines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Related posts:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/energyskeptic.com\/2019\/nafeez-ahmed-venezuelas-collapse-is-a-window-into-how-the-oil-age-will-unravel\/\">Nafeez Ahmed: Venezuela\u2019s collapse is a window into how the Oil Age will unravel<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"http:\/\/energyskeptic.com\/2017\/book-review-in-order-to-live-north-korea\/\">Book review of \u201cIn order to live: A North Korean girl\u2019s journey to freedom\u201d by Yeonmi Park<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"http:\/\/energyskeptic.com\/2014\/inside-north-koreas-environmental-collapse\/\">Inside North Korea\u2019s Environmental Collapse<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"http:\/\/energyskeptic.com\/2014\/book-review-of-nothing-to-envy-ordinary-lives-in-north-korea\/\">Who Lives, Who dies in a never-ending energy crisis. Book review of Nothing to Envy. Ordinary Lives in North Korea<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"http:\/\/energyskeptic.com\/2013\/north-korea-what-happens-to-a-country-when-the-oil-is-cut-off\/\">North Korea: what happens to a country when the oil is cut off?<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"http:\/\/energyskeptic.com\/2015\/how-different-nations-might-cope-with-oil-shortages-after-peak-oil\/\">How different nations have coped with oil shortages<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"http:\/\/energyskeptic.com\/2015\/dmitry-orlov-how-russians-survived-collapse\/\">Dmitry Orlov: How Russians survived the collapse of the Soviet Union<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"http:\/\/energyskeptic.com\/2014\/a-book-review-of-russias-food-policies-and-globalization\/\">A book review of \u201cRussia\u2019s Food Policies and Globalization\u201d<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"http:\/\/energyskeptic.com\/2013\/how-cuba-survived-peak-oil\/\">Lessons Learned from How Cuba Survived Peak Oil<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"http:\/\/energyskeptic.com\/2013\/cubas-agriculture-experiments-are-not-working-out\/\">Cuba\u2019s agriculture experiments are not working out<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And Mexico may be the next to collapse, as you can read&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/srsroccoreport.com\/next-oil-domino-to-fall-mexico-becomes-a-net-oil-importer\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">***<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>2019.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/energyskeptic.com\/2019\/looting-on-the-rise-as-venezuela-runs-out-of-food-electricity\/_wp_link_placeholder\">Venezuela\u2019s Water System is Collapsing<\/a>. New York Times.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In Venezuela, a crumbling economy and the collapse of even basic state infrastructure means water comes irregularly \u2014 and drinking it is an increasingly risky gamble. Scientists found that about a million residents were exposed to contaminated supplies. This puts them at risk of contracting waterborne viruses that could sicken them and threatens the lives of children and the most vulnerable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The risks posed by poor water quality are particularly threatening for a population weakened by food and medication shortages.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Electrical breakdowns and lack of maintenance have gradually stripped the city\u2019s complex water system to a minimum. Water pumps, treatment plants, chlorine injection stations and entire reservoirs have been abandoned as the state ran out of money and skilled workers<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Venezuela collapse: looting, hunger, blackouts Preface.&nbsp;Venezuela is experiencing a double whammy of drought and low oil prices, which has lead to blackouts and inability to import food, ultimately due to their oil production peaking in 1997.&nbsp; The same fate awaits the U.S. someday when oil declines. Related posts: Nafeez Ahmed: Venezuela\u2019s collapse is a window [&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":[3,6,7],"tags":[11836,150,4780,592,851],"class_list":["post-50337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy-2","category-liberty","category-survival-2","tag-alice-friedemann","tag-collapse","tag-looting","tag-oil-price","tag-venezuela"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50337","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=50337"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50338,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50337\/revisions\/50338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}