Sen. Marco Rubio's comments this weekend on widespread power outages inVenezuela came back to bite him after the 'German Dam' he said exploded turnedout to be the name
Sen. Marco Rubio’s comments this weekend on widespread power outages in Venezuela came back to bite him after the “German Dam” he said exploded turned out to be the name of a journalist covering the issue.
The result? Critically ill patients have died, the #Caracas metro remains out of service & few if any flights have arrived at or departed from Caracas in over 20 hours.— Marco Rubio March 9, 2019 Rubio is correct that there was an explosion that cut off electricity in some areas. A transformer exploded in the Sidor substation in Guayana, a city in the Venezuelan state of Bolívar.
— Underscore March 10, 2019 How is this still not deleted? You thought German Dam, a journalist, was an ACTUAL dam. You, a sitting US Senator from my state, literally spread fake news. You were corrected by the journalist, whose name is GERMAN DAM. Yet, here it is, still. Bottomless depths of ineptitude.
Electricity outages are not uncommon for the country, where the economy is collapsing and there are food and medicine shortages. Critics have said corruption and lack of infrastructure investment left Venezuela’s power grid in poor condition. But the government of Venezuela’s President Nicolás Maduro said last week the outages were due to “the electric war announced and directed by American imperialism against our people.
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