Venezuelan President Orders Military Deployment After Blackout

[Judi Lynn]

Venezuelan President Orders Military Deployment After Blackout

CARACAS, Sept 4 (BERNAMA-NNN-XINHUA) -- Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro Tuesday ordered the deployment of army troops to reinforce public security following a large-scale blackout across half the country.

The power outage occured around 12:30 p.m. local time (1700 GMT) at a transmission line in the main grid of the National Electricity Service, affecting the supply of electricity to Venezuela's western and central regions.

Maduro said via Twitter that his government was working to resolve the situation and confirmed that Bolivarian National Armed Force troops would be deployed to bolster public security.

"I am on top of the situation, which has oddly and abruptly affected electricity service," wrote Maduro. "We will be reporting and attending" to the problem."

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http://www.bernama.com/bernama/v7/wn/newsworld.php?id=975011

[Bacchus4.0]

1. its amazing how power outages "oddly and abruptly" affect electricity service isn't it?? n/t

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[99th_Monkey]

2. Nibiru? eom

[Judi Lynn]

3. Run, RUN, you fool! God speed!

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[99th_Monkey]

4. lol -nt