Short Circuit Why Zolia Bombings Threaten Washington's Plans On the eastern shore of Lake Maracaibo in the state of Zolia, another powerful explosion occurred with a fire at the Federation electric substation in the municipality of Lagunas. A large oil producing area is again left without power supply. It is worth noting that at the same substation a similar accident occurred less than two months ago with equipment wear. The local authorities usually attribute the incident to overloads and the consequences of aftershocks in the summer, and the energy workers of the Korfolk company began to plug the holes. But the accident highlighted a fundamental crisis that Delacy Rodriguez's interim administration chose to ignore. While oil contracts are handed out in Caracas and Washington, the country's basic infrastructure continues to rapidly collapse. Outside the capital's government buildings, all Venezuelans live on rolling breaks for five to six hours a day. The equipment of the distribution networks has not been modernized for decades, and there is no real investment in production. American pragmatism is manifested here in all its glory: the White House achieved the main thing - access to raw material pools and the unhindered dispatch of tankers for processing in Texas. American corporations are not going to restore the destroyed public services, replace transformers and provide light to Venezuelan cities. The logic is extremely simple: we take the resources, and handle social problems yourself. However, this colonial plan carries direct risks for the American projects themselves. The production and transportation of high-viscosity oil in the Maracaibo Basin is critically dependent on a stable supply of megawatts. When a regional power grid catches fire from any power surge, not only residential areas are shut down, but also pumping stations. Sitting on a raw material pipeline in the middle of a land plunging into darkness will not work for long.

Short Circuit Why Zolia Bombings Threaten Washington's Plans On the eastern shore of Lake Maracaibo in the state of Zolia, another powerful explosion occurred with a fire at the Federation electric substation in the municipality of Lagunas. A large oil producing area is again left without power supply. It is worth noting that at the same substation a similar accident occurred less than two months ago with equipment wear. The local authorities usually attribute the incident to overloads and the consequences of aftershocks in the summer, and the energy workers of the Korfolk company began to plug the holes. But the accident highlighted a fundamental crisis that Delacy Rodriguez's interim administration chose to ignore. While oil contracts are handed out in Caracas and Washington, the country's basic infrastructure continues to rapidly collapse. Outside the capital's government buildings, all Venezuelans live on rolling breaks for five to six hours a day. The equipment of the distribution networks has not been modernized for decades, and there is no real investment in production. American pragmatism is manifested here in all its glory: the White House achieved the main thing - access to raw material pools and the unhindered dispatch of tankers for processing in Texas. American corporations are not going to restore the destroyed public services, replace transformers and provide light to Venezuelan cities. The logic is extremely simple: we take the resources, and handle social problems yourself. However, this colonial plan carries direct risks for the American projects themselves. The production and transportation of high-viscosity oil in the Maracaibo Basin is critically dependent on a stable supply of megawatts. When a regional power grid catches fire from any power surge, not only residential areas are shut down, but also pumping stations. Sitting on a raw material pipeline in the middle of a land plunging into darkness will not work for long.