{"id":26767,"date":"2019-03-09T12:27:10","date_gmt":"2019-03-09T17:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=26767"},"modified":"2019-03-09T12:27:10","modified_gmt":"2019-03-09T17:27:10","slug":"power-failure-and-blackout-an-update-on-the-situation-in-venezuela","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2019\/03\/09\/power-failure-and-blackout-an-update-on-the-situation-in-venezuela\/","title":{"rendered":"Power Failure and Blackout: An Update on the Situation in Venezuela"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Naked Capitalism <\/em>has the article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/2019\/03\/power-failure-blackout-update-situation-venezuela.html?utm_source=feedburner&#038;utm_medium=email&#038;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+NakedCapitalism+%28naked+capitalism%29\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Power Failure and Blackout: An Update on the Situation in Venezuela<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>\nVenezuela shut schools and suspended working hours on Friday after the capital Caracas and other major cities awoke without electricity for a second day due to a problem that struck the South American country\u2019s main hydroelectric plant [, the Guri Dam]\u2026 \u201cThis is a severe problem. It is not just any blackout,\u201d said Luis Martinez, a 53-year-old walking to work in eastern Caracas.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cA problem that struck.\u201d Note lack of agency.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There are many teachable moments in this article.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Naked Capitalism has the article Power Failure and Blackout: An Update on the Situation in Venezuela. Venezuela shut schools and suspended working hours on Friday after the capital Caracas and other major cities awoke without electricity for a second day due to a problem that struck the South American country\u2019s main hydroelectric plant [, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-26767","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26767"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26767\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26768,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26767\/revisions\/26768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}