American coup in Venezuela

**OhOh** · 26-03-2019, 04:08 PM

It's not as if THE LORD and his FM haven't spoken on this subject previously.

**OhOh** · 27-03-2019, 11:55 PM

Russia throws down the gauntlet to US on Venezuela

The Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova acknowledged in Moscow on Tuesday that Russian “specialists” are indeed in Venezuela within the ambit of a 2001 military-technical cooperation agreement with Caracas. Zakharova underscored that Russia’s bilateral military cooperation with Venezuela is in accordance with the latter’s constitution and has legal underpinning, which “doesn’t require any additional approval from the (opposition-controlled) National Assembly of Venezuela.”

This followed media reports that two Russian air force planes landed at Caracas on Saturday carrying Vasily Tonkoshkurov, chief of staff of the ground forces with nearly 100 military personnel and some 35 tonnes of material. An unnamed official at the Russian embassy in Caracas told the Sputnik that the Russian personnel had arrived to “exchange consultations. Russia has various contracts that are in the process of being fulfilled, contracts of a technical-military character.”

Zakharova’s remarks came a day after Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov received a phone call from the US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on March 25. The Russian readout said Pompeo was “interested in certain issues related to the developments in Venezuela.” It added, “Sergey Lavrov emphasised that Washington’s attempts to organise a coup d’etat in Venezuela and threats to its legitimate government are a violation of the UN Charter and blatant interference in the domestic affairs of a sovereign state… After stating principal differences in Russian and US positions, the officials agreed to stay in touch and continue to exchange assessments.”

The state department readout, however, claimed that Pompeo warned Russia “to cease its unconstructive behavior” in Venezuela” and that Washington and its regional allies “will not stand idly by as Russia exacerbates tensions.” It also said Pompeo accused Russia of “continued insertion … to support the illegitimate regime of Nicolas Maduro in Venezuela [which] risks prolonging the suffering of the Venezuelan people who overwhelmingly support interim President Juan Guaido”.

Meanwhile, on Monday and Tuesday, in a series of tweets, US national security advisor John Bolton vent anger and frustration: “Maduro has lost the support of the Venezuelan people, so he’s relying on Cuban and Russian support to usurp democracy and repress innocent civilians… Rather than sending nuclear-capable bombers and special forces to prop up a corrupt dictator, Russia should work with the international community to support the Venezuelan people. The United States will not tolerate hostile foreign military powers meddling with the Western Hemisphere’s shared goals of democracy, security, and the rule of law… Maduro asks for Cuban and Russian goons to suppress the people of Venezuela.”

With these developments, the crisis situation around Venezuela may deem to have acquired a New Cold War dimension to it. Clearly, Moscow has weighed the pros and cons of the Venezuelan situation and has decided to be unapologetic about its support for the Maduro government. Despite the US outbursts, Moscow is showing no signs of backing off, either.

The big question ahead is whether Russia is climbing the escalation ladder. Indeed, the stepping up of the military-technical cooperation stems from the assessment in Moscow that the desperate US attempts to engineer / sponsor a military coup in Caracas aren’t getting anywhere. Meanwhile, President Nicolas Maduro announced in an interview with the Russian state television today that “a high-level working session on intergovernmental cooperation” between Russia and Venezuela is due to take place in April where “we will sign over 20 documents on cooperation in economy, trade, culture, energy and education.”

Suffice to say, Moscow intends to step up its support for Maduro and is drawing up a plan of action to develop a comprehensive bilateral cooperation program with a medium and long term perspective. Now, that can only mean that in the Russian assessment, US’ blueprint to overthrow the regime through economic sanctions and other covert actions (such as the sabotage of power supply) and various methods of political and diplomatic pressure (including illegal confiscation of Venezuelan assets in western banks running into tens of billions of dollars) can be and must be countered. It is interesting that Cuba, which is rich in experience in countering the US’ coercive policies, is working shoulder to shoulder with Russia in this direction.

From all appearance — so far, at least — a direct US military intervention in Venezuela to forcibly change the regime is not on the cards. Rather, a cold-war era war of attrition appears to be looming ahead. Can Russia sustain the financial and economic burden involved? But the analogy of the Russian intervention in Syria does not hold good here insofar as Venezuela is potentially a rich country with the world’s largest proven hydrocarbon reserves. Equally, China is also a stakeholder in Venezuela’s economic stability.
On the other hand, it is vitally important for Russia that the US, which aspires to be the number one exporter of oil and gas, does not gain control of the vast Venezuelan reserves, as that would mean an enormous capacity falling into Washington’s hands to manipulate the supply and demand in the world energy market and set the price of oil and gas.

In geopolitical terms, a strong Russian presence in Venezuela becomes a negotiating chip for Moscow in dealing with the growing NATO and American deployments along Russia’s western borders in central and eastern Europe and the Baltic states. That alone makes Venezuela a strategic partner for Russia.

Plainly put, any projection of Russian power in the US’ backyard will at some point sooner rather than later impress upon Washington the imperative need to constructively engage Moscow in dialogue and negotiations, howsoever unpalatable that prospect might be. In fact, at one point, Zakharaova pointedly touched on the Trump administration’s Munroe Doctrine, asking in an acerbic tone, “What are they (US) themselves doing in Eastern Hemisphere? Perhaps, they believe that the people of this part of the world will be thankful when Washington wilfully changes their leaders and kills the unwanted ones. Or the US still believes that people are waiting for the Americans to bring democracy to them on the wings of their bombers. Ask Iraqis, Libyans or Serbs about it.”
Zakharova did not explicitly mention Ukraine or the Baltic states and Poland and the Black Sea and the Caucasus, but the implicit meaning is clear: If the US interferes in Russia’s backyard, Moscow serves the right to retaliate. Period. It is useful to recall that the denouement to the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962 was ultimately on the basis of a reciprocal withdrawal of Russian missiles in Cuba and the American missiles deployed in Turkey.

Pompeo’s phone call to Lavrov suggests that the US is trying to figure out the Russian intentions. Interestingly, the Russian readout mentioned that Lavrov also brought up Syria and Ukraine during the conversation with Pompeo. Lavrov’s remarks were rather sharp: “He (Lavrov) also stressed that the US’s intention to recognise Israel’s sovereignty over the Golan Heights would lead to a serious violation of international law, impede the Syrian settlement process and aggravate the situation in the Middle East. Speaking about Ukraine, Sergey Lavrov noted that Washington’s playing into the Kiev regime’s hands in torpedoing the Minsk Agreements on the settlement of the intra-Ukrainian conflict was unacceptable.”
Curiously, on the contrary, the US state department readout completely omitted any references to Syria or Ukraine. Evidently, it was too much of a hot potato for Washington to even acknowledge that Lavrov might have drawn a parallel with the US behaviour in the ‘Eastern Hemisphere’, which Russia finds utterly unacceptable."

https://indianpunchline.com/russia-throws-down-the-gauntlet-to-us-on-venezuela/

Press release on Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov?s telephone conversation with US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo - News - The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation

https://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/ps/2019/03/290639.htm

**Texpat** · 28-03-2019, 01:07 PM

Oh no! Not the gauntlet!

How's the invasion coming along?

**Klondyke** · 28-03-2019, 03:50 PM

No diplomatic status for Guaidó's ambassadors in Berlin and the EU

The Federal Government will not accredit the diplomatic representative sent to Berlin by self-proclaimed Venezuelan Transitional President Juan Guaidó as ambassador. This emerges from a response from the Foreign Office to a request from the Left Party, which is available to our newspaper.

According to this, on 13 March 2019, the Federal Government first received Guaidó's Otto Gebauer as "personal representative of Interim President Guaidó", with whom political talks are held. "Further steps are not planned," it says in the reply.

The statement of the Federal Government is in contradiction to statements of transitional president Guaidó. He had said that the ambassador of Nicolás Maduro's government was "no longer recognized" in Germany. "We have already named a new diplomatic representative in Germany," Guaidó recently told Spiegel Online.

With the recognition of Mr Guaidó as Interim President, the Federal Government has maneuvered itself from the outset into international law offside," said the left-wing foreign policy politician Heike Hänsel our editorial. This has apparently led to "that she is back rowing and an accreditation of the so-called ambassador of Mr. Guaidó, Otto Gebauer, who was involved in a coup attempt in the 2002 leading excludes."

Above all, Spain had worked in the EU countries to ensure that the Guaidó representatives in the EU did not receive diplomatic status or privileges. This was reported from diplomatic circles. Thus, the recognition Guaidós political nature and with no legal effect connected; you can not just hide that the real power in the country is still Maduro. The Member States are largely unanimous in not identifying Venezuela's diplomats.

https://www.noz.de/deutschland-welt/...botschafter-an

**OhOh** · 29-03-2019, 07:56 PM

Originally Posted by Texpat

How's the invasion coming along?

Why invade when you can starve the citizens of Venezuela of food, water and electicity and steal their money and companies.

Venezuela bars Guaido from holding public office for 15 years

"CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido is to be barred from holding public office for 15 years, the maximum punishment allowable by law, state comptroller Elvis Amoroso said on Thursday.

Amoroso said Guaido, the head of the opposition-controlled National Assembly who invoked the constitution to assume an interim presidency in January, had inconsistencies in his personal financial disclosures and a spending record that did not match his level of income. "

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-venezuela-politics-guaido-idUSKCN1R9298

Anti graft law it seems has caught the thief. Some other countries , who shall not be mentioned, may consider applying their similar laws, or not.

**Texpat** · 29-03-2019, 08:00 PM

Originally Posted by OhOh

Why invade when you can starve the citizens of Venezuela of food, water and electicity and steal their money and companies.

Oh, I see. A siege, is it? Those Americans have the fort surrounded? Harbours mined? Rail lines fouled? Blockades set up around the perimeter?

Cool.

Got any pics?

**harrybarracuda** · 29-03-2019, 08:11 PM

Originally Posted by OhOh

Why invade when you can starve the citizens of Venezuela of food, water and electicity and steal their money and companies.

Venezuela bars Guaido from holding public office for 15 years

Very Hun Sen.

**OhOh** · 29-03-2019, 08:36 PM

Originally Posted by Texpat

Got any pics?

Investigate historic Venezuela food imports, where in recent ears the local importers have distributed the food too or just stockpiled to increase the cost of living,yourself.

**harrybarracuda** · 29-03-2019, 09:28 PM

Originally Posted by OhOh

Investigate historic Venezuela food imports, where in recent ears the local importers have distributed the food too or just stockpiled to increase the cost of living,yourself.

He means no, texprat.

**Klondyke** · 31-03-2019, 08:39 AM

Just airing:
Make the economy scream
Published time: 29 Mar, 2019

A Greek journalist travels to Venezuela trying to understand why the politicians in his crisis-plagued country are debating whether there is enough toilet paper in Caracas. Through several trips, which bring him from the shanty towns to the borders of Colombia and back to Europe, he discovers a reality that differs from the mainstream media narrative.

Several prominent academics, journalists and economists (including former independent UN expert, Alfred de Zayas; former editor of Monde Diplomatique, Ignatio Ramonet; and economist Mark Weisbrot) give a different angle on the causes of the crisis and the role of the United States.

Due to copyright restrictions, this video can only be viewed on RT’s live feed. Time of broadcast is available on RT’s schedule page.

https://www.rt.com/shows/documentary...cas-europe-us/

https://www.rt.com/on-air/

**OhOh** · 31-03-2019, 12:01 PM

From 1899, the combatants change but the reasons do not,

American coup in Venezuela-3109_b_1379-jpg

The Rowers - Poem by Rudyard Kipling

The banked oars fell an hundred strong,
And backed and threshed and ground,
But bitter was the rowers' song
As they brought the war-boat round.

They had no heart for the rally and roar
That makes the whale-bath smoke --
When the great blades cleave and hold and leave
As one on the racing stroke.

They sang:--What reckoning do you keep,
And steer by what star,
If we come unscathed from the Southern deep
To be wrecked on a Baltic bar?

"Last night you swore our voyage was done,
But seaward still we go.
And you tell us now of a secret vow
You have made with an open foe!

"That we must lie off a lightless coast
And houl and back and veer
At the will of the breed that have wrought us most
For a year and a year and a year!

"There was never a shame in Christendie
They laid not to our door--
And you say we must take the winter sea
And sail with them once more?

"Look South! The gale is scarce o'erpast
That stripped and laid us down,
When we stood forth but they stood fast
And prayed to see us drown.

"Our dead they mocked are scarcely cold,
Our wounds are bleeding yet--
And you tell us now that our strength is sold
To help them press for a debt!

"'Neath all the flags of all mankind
That use upon the seas,
Was there no other fleet to find
That you strike bands with these?

"Of evil times that men can choose
On evil fate to fall,
What brooding Judgment let you loose
To pick the worst of all?

"In sight of peace--from the Narrow Seas
O'er half the world to run--
With a cheated crew, to league anew
With the Goth and the shameless Hun!"

https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-rowers/

**Texpat** · 31-03-2019, 12:10 PM

Reduced to cut-and-paste poetry? Run out of conspiracies?

Try Coleridge's "Rime of the Ancient Mariner" you can find it at Project Gutenberg. If nothing else, it will take your worried mind off the American "siege" (wink wink).

Search Project Gutenberg - Project Gutenberg

**harrybarracuda** · 31-03-2019, 12:54 PM

There once was a crook from Caracas
Who was a c u n t who stole billions
etc.

**Texpat** · 31-03-2019, 01:01 PM

There once was a prez in Caracas
Whose policies raised quite a rukus
He said "We have oil"
"So what's there to spoil?"
Our socialist ways will just fuck us.

**harrybarracuda** · 31-03-2019, 01:39 PM

Originally Posted by Texpat

There once was a prez in Caracas
Whose policies raised quite a rukus
He said "We have oil"
"So what's there to spoil?"
Our socialist ways will just fuck us.

Byron would be proud of you.

**Klondyke** · 31-03-2019, 01:53 PM

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

There once was a crook from Caracas
Who was a c u n t who stole billions
etc.

How outrageous. We love the crooks who do not steal and who stay poor...

**OhOh** · 31-03-2019, 04:37 PM

Thank you all for your rhymes.

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

Who was a c u n t who stole billions

Nah, "the [at][at][at][at]" claims bankruptcy, every time he loses and has quite a scoreboard for losing - even the "popular vote" some allege.

**Klondyke** · 02-04-2019, 10:03 AM

US frustrated at Venezuela president’s staying power as ally Russia props him up

Diplomats say economic pressure, mainly US sanctions, may not be enough to dislodge Nicolas Maduro if the Venezuelan people don’t rise up
1 Apr 2019

The excitement in some US and foreign diplomatic circles about the rise of Juan Guaido and an expectation for the fall of President Nicolas Maduro has been replaced by frustration over the Venezuelan leader’s staying power – and Russia’s support for him.

Maduro’s hold on Venezuela has led diplomats, foreign leaders and some Washington officials to consider that, barring military action, Maduro may be able to follow in the footsteps of other authoritarian leaders who have stayed in power despite crushing sanctions.

“Maduro has definitely shown he is more resilient than what people thought. That’s a fact,” said a diplomat from Latin America who was unauthorised to speak publicly about the regional strategy.

“If you think about what the administration said about ‘this is the end, this is the end,’ and yet Maduro is still there.”

Foreign diplomats in Washington say they got caught up in expectations raised by some in the Trump administration that Guaido would take over the government, and so are disappointed that Maduro’s regime has not yet fallen.

Confidence that Maduro’s fall was guaranteed has now turned more to hope that he will – and concern he may not.

“There was this euphoric reaction that we all felt that it was the end of Maduro,” said Fernando Carrera, Guatemala’s foreign minister in 2013 and 2014.

But with dozens of nations recognising Guaido as Venezuela’s rightful leader, Maduro is managing the country’s new status as a pariah state by largely operating outside the Western systems of trade and finance, while turning to Russia and Cuba, and to some extent China and India.

Russia’s backing of Maduro in the face of the US effort to depose him is increasingly being compared to the Kremlin’s intervention in Syria on behalf of President Bashar al-Assad.

In 2015, Russian involvement turned the tide in Syria’s civil war, preserving Assad’s power and elevating Moscow into a seeming kingmaker in the Middle East.
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History shows that sanctions alone are not necessarily the most effective way to force regime change, said Robert Litwak, a former director for non-proliferation for the National Security Council, who is now a vice-president at the Woodrow Wilson Centre.

“If one looks at the record, one can’t find a case were economic sanctions on their own produced a change of regime,” Litwak said.

“Look, Cuba has been sanctioned for 60 years. We’ve had the most rigorous sanctions. People are driving cars from the 1950s and they’ve circumvented sanctions. But it hasn’t collapsed the regime.”

Litwak said the United States heavily sanctioned Iraq, Libya, North Korea and Iran was unable to achieve the goal of regime change.

Read more
https://www.scmp.com/news/world/amer...er-ally-russia

**Klondyke** · 02-04-2019, 10:45 AM

New "landing" in Venezuela - China supports Russia against the USA (PHOTO, VIDEO)

30 Mar 2019

Heavy transport aircraft from China landed yesterday afternoon at the airport. Simon Bolivar, located 20 kilometers from the Venezuelan capital Caracas.

According to Chinese media reports, they have loads of medical care, which is part of "deep friendship and bilateral cooperation between the two countries," as the Chinese Ambassador to Venezuela said.

Meanwhile, local opposition publications claim that under the guise of medical care, China is sending military specialists to Caracas.

It seems that the only meaning of their presence in Venezuela is to assist the legitimate authorities in restoring constitutional order and repelling US aggression.

https://rusvesna.su/news/1553964152

**Klondyke** · 02-04-2019, 03:41 PM

‘What kind of a dictatorship is this?’ Max Blumenthal on Venezuela cops protecting coup leader
1 Apr, 2019 22:59

US-backed Venezuelan opposition leader, Juan Guaido, came to Caracas seeking to be arrested, but the provocation failed and he ended up being guarded by police from an angry mob, investigative journalist Max Blumenthal told RT.

“It’s ironic to see government security forces actually protecting Guaido, a figure who is calling for the government to be toppled and attempting to fragment the security services from within,” Blumenthal, editor of the Grayzone Project, said, commenting on the video recently uploaded to social media.

The choice of “El Valle where Maduro’s base is” for the opposition gathering was no coincidence, as Guaido came there “because the US wanted him to get arrested to create a provocation,” Blumenthal said. The opposition leader wasn’t visible in the video, but he said that “the rally actually did take place. Guaido got out of his armored car and very few people attended it.”

The “pathetic” rally had a reverse effect and actually showed “how irrelevant Guaido is becoming,” the journalist pointed out. Despite a dire economic situation and constant blackouts, he “mustered very small numbers in the streets so far. Most people are staying at home,” Blumenthal said, adding that it’s the heavy US backing which is actually “harming the opposition’s cause.”

President Maduro is, of course, not without blame, as “mistakes were made by the government… but now they’re in a position when the US is trying to prevent them from getting out of the hyperinflation… and preventing them from importing food and medicine,” the journalist explained.

The harsh sanctions imposed by the Trump administration on Venezuela constitute “financial terrorism and it’s an attack on everyone, regardless of their political affiliation. I think Venezuelans recognized that,” and therefore have no desire to back Washington’s man, Guaido, Blumenthal believes.

https://www.rt.com/news/455308-guaid...lly-venezuela/

**OhOh** · 02-04-2019, 09:28 PM

Originally Posted by Klondyke

Max Blumenthal

How is his ameristani social credit score, as determined by the alphabet regime.

If it ain't on RFA it ain't running here.

**Klondyke** · 02-04-2019, 09:56 PM

Glimpsed somewhere, a good one:

Americans in the world have arbitrarily seized $ 30 billion of Venezuelan state assets, then bought for them 30 million humanitarian aid, put it for 300 thousand into the truck and left it on the border for 3 thousand to ignite it by their own hired provocateurs.

**OhOh** · 03-04-2019, 01:28 PM

It appears that 1,000s of Venezuelans have made a dash for Columbia. Next stop Mexico. goldilocks better build that wall quickly.

Of course amerisani spokesman has stated they were breaking into Venezuela, idiot.

Thousands Of Venezuelans Break Through Border Barricades - Bolton Cheers Mayhem

"After US coup attempts targeting the Nicolas Maduro government failed to produce the desired result over the past two months, it appears things are about to heat up again, as the White House grasps at any incident that could again take Venezuela into international spotlight, ramping up external pressures amid continued infrastructural collapse and mass power outages.

National security adviser John Bolton on Tuesday evening tweeted a video showing ongoing mayhem at a key border crossing with Colombia, where desperate Venezuelans have been attempting to break through Maduro forces imposed barriers: "The Venezuelan people have broken through Maduro’s barricades and have begun moving humanitarian aid from Colombia across the border. Another important victory for Interim President Juan Guaido," Bolton stated.

The Venezuelan people have broken through Maduro’s barricades and have begun moving humanitarian aid from Colombia across the border. Another important victory for Interim President Juan Guaido. https://t.co/0qXYj8jHIr

— John Bolton (@AmbJohnBolton) April 2, 2019

Bolton called attention to the footage described as showing "the moment Venezuelans broke down the barriers on the Simon Bolivar bridge to cross back into Venezuela with supplies."

It appears the White House plans to put continued focus on border clashes following the late February failed attempt of US-backed "interim president" Juan Guaido personally leading humanitarian aid caravans from Colombia into Venezuela, in order to undermine and ultimately overthrow Maduro.

A breaking Reuters report described the incident to which Bolton referred as involving thousands of people rushing the border, which was blocked by large container truck barricades:

Thousands of Venezuelans broke through barricades along the international border with Colombia on Tuesday, according to the migration office in Bogota, which warned Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro that he would be held responsible for any problems that may occur.

Maduro in February blocked bridges joining the two nations in a bid to prevent a U.S.-backed effort to distribute hundreds of tons of humanitarian aid to the crisis-wracked nation.

With bridges blocked by containers and trucks, Venezuelans have been wading through the Tachira River to reach the city of Cucuta, on Colombia’s northern border, to find food, medicines and work. But torrential rains in recent days has made that impossible.

Members of Venezuela’s Bolivarian National Guard (GNB) have been stationed at key border crossings, fearful also that exiled Venezuelan military defectors could bring arms into the country to stage a military revolt.

But the border crisis is also largely economic, as millions of Venezuelans have sought passage to neighboring Colombia due to food, medical, and electricity supply shortages. Many also seek to obtain jobs in neighboring countries while maintaining their homes in border towns on the Venezuelan side.

Thus it appears that in this case Venezuelans are trying to break out of the country across to Colombia to grab any supplies available, which means Bolton appears to be completely misreading or perhaps willfully distorting the whole incident.

As Venezuelans flooded across the border, Colombia's migration agency warned Venezuela that it was responsible for any mishap and the safety of its citizens.

#URGENTE || A está hora 11:04 AM, venezolanos de lado colombiano del puente #SimónBolívar rompieron piquete de la GNB para ingresar a #Venezuela con alimentos tras crecida del río #Táchira. pic.twitter.com/KYDqcns7xW

— Gaby Arellano (@gabyarellanoVE) April 2, 2019

"The usurper Maduro is responsible for anything that may happen to the population that is transiting between the two countries," Christian Kruger, head of Colombia's migration office said late Tuesday.

Thousands of Venezuelans broke through barricades on a bridge linking Venezuela with Colombia, according to the migration office in Bogota.

Some climbed over containers that the Venezuelan military had placed on the Simon Bolivar bridge to block access to the Colombian border city of Cucuta. — Deutsche Welle

It also must be remembered that during the late February crisis along the border at the Francisco de Paula Santander International Bridge, two aid trucks were set on fire — an incident blamed by the US on Maduro forces, but later proven to be the work of the opposition, which suggests Washington is ever willing to use "false flag" events to escalate the crisis.

Are we in for a "round 2" incident at the border? Likely something big is about to happen now that Washington planners are increasingly out of options, given Maduro's weathering the crisis and international pressures and sanctions against him thus far.

The Venezuelan government previously condemned all Washington and right-wing opposition groups' attempts at creating provocations to initiate greater international action against Caracas and legitimate authorities.

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-04-02/thousands-venezuelans-break-through-border-barricades-bolton-cheers-mayhem

**OhOh** · 06-04-2019, 11:37 AM

Power back on in Cancun after outages in Mexico's Yucatan

"MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Electric power returned to three states on Mexico’s Yucatan peninsula on Friday night, including tourist hot spots Cancun and Tulum, after a partial blackout left 1.6 million customers without energy, state-run power utility CFE said.
“Service has been 100 percent reestablished in the three states thanks to the quick work of CFE workers,” the utility said in a statement.

CFE said that a brush fire between transmission towers had caused the power outage.

Power outages hit throughout the peninsula, which is dotted with Caribbean coastal resorts.
Places affected included Cancun and Tulum in the state of Quintana Roo, the city of Merida in Yucatan state, and the neighboring state of Campeche, a major oil-producing region.

Some 85 percent of all clients in the three states were affected by the blackout, said CFE. "

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-mexico-cancun-blackout/cancuns-power-coming-back-after-outages-in-mexicos-yucatan-idUSKCN1RH2KV?il=0

It appears that lighting a fire under the transmission lines is an easily and anonymously available tactic available to all saboteurs.

As this tactic is heading north can we assume that the refugees are the culprits and will it appear in ameristan next?

Luckily Texas doesn't have many jungles.

**Klondyke** · 10-04-2019, 10:36 PM

UNSC session just live on RT, also on Al Jazeera, with VOTUS in person...

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