CHAVEZ: LESS ELECTRICAL POWER TO THE PEOPLE

NYTIMES: As Blackouts Hit Energy-Rich Venezuela, the President Tells People to Cut Back

This country may be an energy colossus, with the largest conventional oil reserves outside the Middle East and one of the world’s mightiest hydroelectric systems, but that has not prevented it from enduring serious electricity and water shortages that seem only to be getting worse.

President Hugo Chávez has been facing a public outcry in recent weeks over power failures that, after six nationwide blackouts in the last two years, are cutting electricity for hours each day in rural areas and in industrial cities like Valencia and Ciudad Guayana. Now, water rationing has been introduced here in the capital.

NO SURPRISE HERE: SOCIALISM IS THE ROAD TO SERFDOM; LESS ELETRICITY IS PART OF THE TERRITORY.

THEN COMES RATIONING.