Venezuela is going through a grievous power –electrical energy- emergency but the so called revolution is also having difficulties to conceal it, while the motto “To stick to one’s hands” pretending not to understand, ignoring this problem, isn’t paying any results.
Frequent black outs would reach even to the farthest country geography, consequently affecting its inhabitants. There’s no getting around it: government officials are definitely not ruling this South American country efficiently and again, back to the old tricks, they don’t attend their office duties, and clerks fail to come to work either for the well being and people’s welfare and to bring this country on the road to a fair progress and steady growth.
But wages these bureaucrats earn are justified since they support and secure Chavez president at office and of course at power. This explains vacant minister offices as public administration clerks abandon their jobs just to attend to campaign parades.
We would expect an outcome: the basic, elementary maintenance overhaul given to dams is neglected, overlooked and careless by negligent office clerks, who obligated to wear red clothes -men in red- are forced to attend to these parades -assistance is checked- even humiliated if refused, so Venezuela won’t get out of control.
The country’s infrastructure, communication, transportation, and roads, has become impaired, wearing out, causing damage to citizens. This is what has happened to power plants, despite huge budgets approved by president Chávez to deal with these problems.
In only just a decade, over 950.000 million dollar bugged of calculated proceeds without control authority or instrument have been handed out to energy board, without authority control, except for the ostentatious, showy governmental expense squandering. This has been augmented by the new attention, courtesy contributions and donations given for the sake of the Bolivarian Revolution to allied countries, plus purchases of obsolete weaponry for non existing wars.
The biggest and only dam in Venezuela is “Guri” or “Raúl Leony,” once a major outstanding engineering masterpiece, and still is today, standing as one of the best in the world, lacks appropriate maintenance and safeguarding creating some problems along the years. So it shows the fact only half of total turbines working presently is responsible for 70% of power going to Venezuela’s energy necessities.
Nevertheless, 11 years since Chávez got power and enough resources were not sufficient to build more dams -or alternate energy plants. At the same time other ways for generating energy have been abandoned -like thermoelectric plants powered by orimulsion fuel. These latter depend greatly on oil -Venezuela has plenty of this- and would be much more manageable than depending on rain hazard.
The country is now under the worst leadership crisis, blaming others for the power shortage, ranging from “El Niño,” to blame the IV Republic, ruined by almighty chavismo, it has the government way out.
Everybody would question if too much power given to a president has been effective to solve Venezuela’s problems, or if random, hit and miss is the rule here instead. Venezuelans cannot accept any political project hat would let collapse public utility and risk the nation budget in arms and propaganda expenses on the rise.
Energy supply has been a hard trial for Chavez and his admirers, yet they have mismanaged these damned catastrophe. The only way out of this in resolving the current power crisis would be a proposal bound to execute and carry out new alternate ways to get Venezuelans out of the existing electric shortage.
Chavez producing smoke from oil.
