http://www.frumforum.com/lights-out-in-chavez-land Building a conservatism that can win again Sat, 11 Feb 2012 17:50:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://www.frumforum.com/lights-out-in-chavez-land/comment-page-1#comment-80782 Drumbeat: January 23, 2010 | Bear Market Investments Mon, 25 Jan 2010 17:31:19 +0000 http://www.frumforum.com/?p=20548#comment-80782 [...] Lights Out in Chavez Land Maintenance of university buildings has not been so much deferred, as abandoned. [...] [...] Lights Out in Chavez Land Maintenance of university buildings has not been so much deferred, as abandoned. [...]

]]> http://www.frumforum.com/lights-out-in-chavez-land/comment-page-1#comment-80674 Commodities Broker | Drumbeat: January 23, 2010 | Commodities Options | Commodities Futures | Commodities Prices Sat, 23 Jan 2010 21:43:16 +0000 http://www.frumforum.com/?p=20548#comment-80674 [...] Lights Out in Chavez Land Maintenance of university buildings has not been so much deferred, as abandoned. But while the university’s decay is accelerated, the physical collapse can be seen everywhere. I’m in Maracaibo tonight, Venezuela’s second city. Huge blocks of the city are dark, a consequence of the rolling blackouts that strike for 2 hours per day. The blackouts are worst in cities and states where the opposition is strong, as here. But even Caracas (with an opposition mayor, but firmly under central control) is not entirely exempt: the city does not go black, but it does go brown, with street lights shut even on highways and half the lightbulbs removed from public places. [...] [...] Lights Out in Chavez Land Maintenance of university buildings has not been so much deferred, as abandoned. But while the university’s decay is accelerated, the physical collapse can be seen everywhere. I’m in Maracaibo tonight, Venezuela’s second city. Huge blocks of the city are dark, a consequence of the rolling blackouts that strike for 2 hours per day. The blackouts are worst in cities and states where the opposition is strong, as here. But even Caracas (with an opposition mayor, but firmly under central control) is not entirely exempt: the city does not go black, but it does go brown, with street lights shut even on highways and half the lightbulbs removed from public places. [...]

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