I was hoping you guys would have made an update way before. After the previous blackout, the represion against everybody speaking about this stuff has intensified. They arrested for a few days, and still have under gag orders and orders to go to court all weeks, a prominent young internet activist and journalist, Luis Calros Díaz. His crime, according to Diosdado Cabello and his team in his routine hate TV segment and social media, was that he “obviously” knew of the blackout in advance as he was speaking about it before it happened, and for that they used a doctored segment of a video.
The full segment of the video shows him and his wife answering a question from somebody about what to do in case of an “informational” blackout, aka censorship, and he extended it to even an electrical blackout. Basically telling people in case of a blackout of information of any kind, clean out your phone, make as much space as possible, and document what is happening, because it will be needed, and we all need to help each other be informed.
From that, they just made him a “conspirator” in the “attack”, and proceeded to arrest him in their traditional way - that is, just kidnapp him and have the family wonder for hours where the hell was he, till he was driven home… to seize his stuff and back to the dungeons.
He has been “excarcelated”, but again, still “charged” with something.
Now the Prosecutor is on fire and says that they will apply the “Hate law” to everybody because people are saying awful stuff online and demanding death and fire and of course is all the opposition and the US plan.
And not like, you know, after a week with no dependable electricity you may very well wish for all of them to have a kidney stone at minimum.
As usual, a lot of people just buy the excuses, specially abroad, because they fit the narrative, but if you know the history of the last 20 years you know there have been warnings about the awful state of the electrical network, the incredible amount of corruption in the plans to modernize and expand it, the fact that, as everything else, maintenance is a thing of the past, and of course the brain drain, as anybody with any actual knowledge has at least tried to get away, leaving at best well intentioned people without any idea of how to deal with the complex systems, and at worst a fucking military gorilla without a clue but “very red” ordering workers that are metaphorically fed up but actually starving.
