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He did so following suspicious Cararcas and Aragua state outages. He called them opposition efforts to wage "electricity" and "economic war." He stressed the urgency of protecting "national security."
Venezuela's state-run National Electricity Corporation (Corpoelec) found 11 burned out transformers throughout Aragua state. Company president Argenis Chavez cited sabotage. So did Maduro, saying "(t)here's nothing to indicate (a conventional) failure."
"It's not a secret to anyone that inside the structure of the electrical system, there are (anti-Chavismo) elements. Thank God every day there are less workers who answer the right-wing call to commit sabotage. But there is internal and external sabotage."
Argenis Chavez said suspicious power failures occurred before last October's presidential elections. They're happening again now. Perhaps other destabilizing schemes are planned ahead of April 14.
Washington's long arm's been involved throughout Chavez's tenure. It continues now. Replacing Chavismo is policy. Past efforts failed.
They included an aborted two-day April 2002 coup, a 2002-03 64-day oil industry lockout, an unsuccessful 2004 recall election, Western scoundrel media campaigns, and millions of dollars given anti-Chavismo political parties, journalists, NGOs, and other groups wanting oligarch power restored.
In 2006, Washington established a Director of National Intelligence (DNI) mission manager for Venezuela and Cuba. CIA veteran Timothy Langford heads it. He replaced interim manager Patrick Maher.
In June 2007, former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs Craig Kelly called Chavez a regional "enemy." He proposed "six main areas of action for the US government to limit (his) influence (and) reassert US leadership in the region."
He stressed "strengthen(ing) ties to those military leaders in the region who share our concern over Chavez." He proposed "psychological operations" to exploit government vulnerabilities.
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